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		<title>Link Aloha 2 Launches!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link Aloha v2 was just launched. It&#8217;s basically a link building service that allows you to very easily submit SEO campaigns, with very little start up information (urls, keywords, etc) &#8211; and you can decide what kinds of links you want (choices are: web 2.0 sites, private blog network, forums, article directories, social media, bookmarks) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linkaloha" title="Link Aloha" target="_blank">Link Aloha v2</a> was just launched.  It&#8217;s basically a link building service that allows you to very easily submit SEO campaigns, with very little start up information (urls, keywords, etc) &#8211; and you can decide what kinds of links you want (choices are: web 2.0 sites, private blog network, forums, article directories, social media, bookmarks) &#8211; and tell it how many to get per day.  It really can&#8217;t get any easier than that.</p>
<p>I just bought my own subscription, and just setup a campaign.  Because it was just launched today, I don&#8217;t have a solid &#8220;review&#8221; for you at the moment.  However I did want to get the word out because last time, it sold out pretty quickly and the memberships are limited.  So if this looks like it&#8217;s something you can use, I&#8217;d at least try it out for a month.  There&#8217;s several levels of subscriptions, with varying # of links you get per month.  The larger packages are pretty expensive though &#8211; but once membership is sold out, you can&#8217;t upgrade, so definitely choose wisely..</p>
<p>The other thing I like about <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linkaloha" title="Link Aloha" target="_blank">Link Aloha</a>, which sometimes isn&#8217;t offered with other &#8220;services&#8221; like this, is that you see detailed reports of where the links are coming from.  Another cool feature is that you don&#8217;t even need to supply your own content, though you can if you want.  The system scrapes articles for you and spins them and submits them.  Just need to give urls and keywords and you&#8217;re golden.</p>
<p>Check it out here: <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linkaloha" title="Link Aloha" target="_blank">Link Aloha v2</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Synnd Lite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve mentioned the program Synnd before. It&#8217;s a program hosted on their servers, that allow you to utilize tens of thousands of their members&#8217; social site accounts, such as numerous bookmark sites, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Article directories, Stumbleupon, and much more. You create campaigns such as bookmark campaigns, where you add spun titles, urls, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned the program <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Synnd</a> before.  It&#8217;s a program hosted on their servers, that allow you to utilize tens of thousands of their members&#8217; social site accounts, such as numerous bookmark sites, Digg, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Article directories, Stumbleupon, and much more.  You create campaigns such as bookmark campaigns, where you add spun titles, urls, descriptions and tell it how many bookmarks you want per day, and it will automatically use random bookmark accounts from all their users to bookmark your sites.  There&#8217;s many different types of campaigns you can utilize.  Another example would be to have your Digg submission voted on by hundreds of users, and even comments are added.  This gets you enormous spikes in traffic if you&#8217;re in the right type of niche for Digg users.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Synnd</a> is not really a &#8220;backlink tool&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a &#8220;social presence&#8221; tool.  All the social activity a site receives, actually is part of search engine algorithms. This is becoming more important, and a bigger ranking factor every day.  If a site continues to get bookmarks, stumbles, diggs, twitter mentions, etc.. every day &#8211; the search engines will take these as a &#8220;vote&#8221; of popularity, and thus will rank it accordingly.  Because these social accounts (that are utilized by Synnd) are bookmarking, and commenting on SO MANY different types of sites &#8211; it&#8217;s more likely to NOT be considered as &#8220;gaming&#8221; the system, since they aren&#8217;t all voting for your site, they&#8217;re posting about thousands of different sites all the time, like a normal user would.</p>
<p>Synnd has many subscription levels, and there&#8217;s a newer one called &#8220;<a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synndlite">Synnd Lite</a>&#8220;.  It lets you use their system without paying a lot of money &#8211; so you can see the positive effect it has, and can get used to their system without spending a lot of money.  There&#8217;s a webinar that I think you should check out.  It explains the importance of social media and why you should utilize it.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synndlite">Click Here To Sign Up To Synnd Lite Webinar</a></strong></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Link Research Tools Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 20:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinkResearchTools.com is one of the most comprehensive link data analysis toolsets I&#8217;ve ever used (and I&#8217;ve tested quite a few of them). I have to say that there isn&#8217;t any other similar service that even comes close to the amount of USEFUL data that this toolset gives you. One of the reasons that this is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LinkResearchTools.com is one of the most comprehensive link data analysis toolsets I&#8217;ve ever used (and I&#8217;ve tested quite a few of them).  I have to say that there isn&#8217;t any other similar service that even comes close to the amount of USEFUL data that this toolset gives you.  One of the reasons that this is so powerful is that it&#8217;s not relying on any one set of data sources, but compiling ALL the major data sets available and mashing it all together to give you a more complete outlook.  There are several reports you can run, and they are all very useful.  I&#8217;ll be going over each one, to give you a better idea of what this toolset can really do&#8230;</p>
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<p>In the account settings, depending on the type of account you subscribed to, you can actually brand the reports and add your company logo to the top and export as PDF.  This is very important if you are a SEO agency.  You can choose to receive an email when the report(s) are finished.  Here, you can also add various API keys.  It&#8217;s important to note that LinkResearchTools accesses many external data sets and some of those require API keys (such as SEMRush, Sistrix, and SEOMoz).  SEOMoz you can use a free API with limited access, and the others I believe you need to have an account with them.  I also want to point out that it does not, by any means, require these metrics to get the most out of LinkResearchTools.  It&#8217;s great if you have them, and be able to add additional data to these huge reports, however it&#8217;s not completely necessary (all the information I&#8217;ve writing about below was retrieved by only using a free SEOMoz API key and nothing else).  Most of LinkResearchTools information is given to you without the need of those APIkeys.  Here&#8217;s some information about each of the reports you can run:</p>
<p><strong>The Backlink Profiler (BLP) report</strong></p>
<p>What this tool does is analyze a domain/site, or a specific page on a domain &#8211; and gathers all the <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> that point to that domain or that specific page, allowing you to analyze the backlink data in a number of ways (has numerous graphs, charts, lists, ranking measurements, etc).  What&#8217;s great about this though &#8211; is that it&#8217;s not relying on any one source, but rather calling numerous resources (I think there&#8217;s about 20).  For instance, Yahoo Site explorer &#8211; for one of my domains, shows about 5K backlinks, yet Google shows about 400, and Majestic SEO shows about 8K, and so on.  It gathers all of them, and gives you enormous amounts of data about EACH backlink, including when it was found, the page rank, the dofollow status, how many backlinks that url itself has pointing to it (this is a huge factor in how strong that backlink is), the mozRank (from SeoMoz), ACRank (MajesticSEO), when the domain was created, what type of site it was (blog/article/forum/etc), the &#8220;Juice&#8221; factor (something unique with LinkResearchTools and it&#8217;s very cool &#8211; will go into more detail below), the cache date, if the url has any digg/reddit/fbshares/fblikes/tweets pointing to it, and a LOT more.  When you run a backlink <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> report &#8211; there&#8217;s several functions you can choose to include in the report (the more you add, the slower it will take to process &#8211; and some you just might not be interested in, so it&#8217;s good to only choose what&#8217;s necessary).</p>
<p>The &#8220;Juice&#8221; Indicator is a really interesting ranking metric.  Basically, it&#8217;s telling you how good of a backlink source is.  It can tell you if that page is ranking #1 for a unique phrase on that page, whether that page was found in numerous pages of the site (ie. archive pages, etc), it will tell you if it&#8217;s not indexed in Google, whether it&#8217;s not alive at all (404), and it will tell you if it&#8217;s DUPLICATE content (it found multiple copies of the content on several other sites in the index &#8211; such as a syndicated article/press release, etc), and it will also tell you if the page doesn&#8217;t really have much content, and might not be worth getting your link on.  This is a very cool metric that can quickly identify good backlink sources.  </p>
<p>Once the report has finished compiling, the first thing you see is &#8220;Link Profile by Metrics&#8221;.  This is a great way to show large amounts of data. It uses bar graphs, and then shows you how the backlinks are showing up, related to Theme (it tells you the various overall themes of the backlink sites, such as whether they are personal blogs, or sites related to xyz niche, etc).  This is fantastic when analyzing several competitors, because you can quickly see any trends regarding the top ranking sites for your chosen niche/keyword and try to similarly gather the same type of themed backlinks as they have, since it&#8217;s working for them.  It quickly and easily shows you how many backlinks have the above-mentioned characteristics (pagerank,Fblikes,diggs,site type, ACrank,backlinks, MozRank, etc) and you can filter them by only showing the do-follow links, or no-follow links, or sites that just mention the url (instead of linking to it), and it also allows you to filter the backlinks that show up in the reports, but are not actually found on the page (it&#8217;s good to remove these when analyzing competitors, but when looking at the profile of one of your own sites, it&#8217;s good to find these links and figure out if you can get those links back!)</p>
<p>The next main part of the report is the Anchor Text Breakdown.  It will show you the percentages of various anchor texts used, and whether they are do-follow, no-follow, or not found.  This is shown by default as pie graphs, but you can also have it show a table of data (everything, by the way, is exportable to CSV/XLS and even PNG/IMAGES). </p>
<p>The last portion of the backlink profile report is the actual dataset listing. Here, it will show all the backlink urls in a sortable table &#8211; so you can sort via various metrics (age/pagerank/mozrank/etc) &#8211; so you can find out the best backlinks (according to whatever metric you choose).  You can also easily filter this list &#8211; to show very specific lists, such as: show only the backlinks that have at least 50 backlinks (from Yahoo Site Explorer) pointing to that url, or show links that have Page Rank greater than 1, or show only DOFOLLOW links with a page rank greater than 2, that have at least 1 Digg bookmark.  There&#8217;s many ways to view this data and this service makes it extremely easy to pull only the data you want to see.  </p>
<p><strong>The Competitive Landscape Analyzer (CLA) report</strong></p>
<p>What this does is compare your site (or any site) to a list of competing sites (or pages) in regards to their backlink profile &#8211; using several metrics that you can choose to utilize.  You start by adding your url, and then a list of competing urls.  You can even just enter a keyword and it will grab the top ten urls and add them to the competing pages list for you.  Then you can decide to compare various aspects of them, via various metrics, such as link status and anchor text, Yahoo backlinks, SEOMoz and Majestic Rankings, themes of a domain, type of site, traffic stats, social votes, and more.  This is really useful if you want to outrank your competition by outdoing what shows up most prevalent in their linking profiles.  For example, one of the main features of this report is that you can classify the list of anchor text keywords that show up repeatedly in the backlinks of your list of sites you entered, by choosing Brand, Money, or Other as a classification.  So you can see if your competition is mainly using targeted money keywords, or brand names mainly, or other random anchor text.  If most of your competition is using brand names for keywords, chances are it would benefit you to do the same.  Let&#8217;s say your competitor is showing that they use brands in 65% of their backlinks, and you are only using 30%.  If you want to outrank them, one thing you should consider is raising your branding anchor text ratio beyond 65%.  It takes a bit of setup on your part, but it&#8217;s well worth it. Another useful feature is that it will show you whether your competition has a lot of people (or themselves) tweeting and/or FB sharing/liking..  Whether their links are mostly Do-follow or not, whether most of their backlinks have more backlinks pointed to them, what their authority ranking is (for example &#8211; if most of the competition&#8217;s backlinks aren&#8217;t high quality authority backlinks &#8211; that means that it won&#8217;t take many &#8220;good&#8221; links to beat them &#8211; or that you can just concentrate on getting more &#8220;regular/sub-standard&#8221; links and you&#8217;ll probably do fine with just getting &#8220;more of them&#8221;).  Just keep in mind that what it&#8217;s showing you is what their BACKLINKS are showing (not what their main urls are utilizing).  So if you&#8217;re seeing a lot of tweeting showing up &#8211; it means there&#8217;s people tweeting their backlinks, not their sites themselves.</p>
<p><strong>The Common Backlink Tool (CBLT) report</strong></p>
<p>This allows you to enter a group of competing URLS (up to 50) and find which backlinks are most common (at least 2 of them having the same backlink) among your competitors &#8211; allowing you to target new backlink sources.  It&#8217;s a great way to find out where your competition is choosing to get most of their backlinks.  I like to put a list of 10 competitors (the more the merrier) &#8211; and then sort the urls that show up by Juice rating (this is going to point out the best backlink sources that are actually easy to obtain for yourself) and then make sure it shows up on at least 25% of the list of the urls you added, so I&#8217;d make it show only backlinks that were common across 3 or more competing urls.  This will give you a great list of good backlink sources that you should try to target.  This report will also show you the common themes of your competitions backlink profiles, such as whether they are choosing blogs as the most common backlink source, or forums, or sites related to certain themes (niches).</p>
<p><strong>The Juice report</strong></p>
<p>This allows you to see a list of competing sites &#8211; and a general overview of their backlink profiles, not in detail, but more to compare to one another.  It&#8217;s a way to see how competitive a keyword is (you can enter a keyword and have it compare the top 10) or you can just add your own list of urls.  For instance, when I look up one of the keywords that I&#8217;ve targeted, I can immediately see that more than half of them have more than 1,000 FB votes, so naturally &#8211; facebook is an important aspect of this niche.  I can see that most in the top ten have at between 11-100 re-tweets pointing to their urls, that 40% are PR0, 40% are PR6, and 20% are PR5 domains. That half of them have between 100 and 1000 backlinks, and that most are ranked pretty high according to SeoMoz ratings.  I can also see that 90% have more than 100K indexed pages so if I want to rank in the top ten, my site will most likely have to be big <img src='http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>Strongest Sub-Pages Tool</strong></p>
<p>This report analyzes one domain at a time.  It&#8217;s here to tell us the strongest pages of that site.  Why would you want to know that?  Well &#8211; there&#8217;s a few reasons that come to mind.  First &#8211; it&#8217;s a good method to analyze a large site that you can get backlinks from, in your niche.  Let&#8217;s take forums and blogs for example&#8230;  Forums and blogs are great places to get good backlinks.  I would take my keyword, and add Forum or Blog to the keyword and see what forums/blogs are in the niche.  Pick a top ranking forum/blog, and get it analyzed.  Now you will know the best pages to try and get a link from.  For forums, it will most likely show you sub-forum urls near the top, since those are always linked to the most, and that tells you it&#8217;s good to start a thread in those particular categories if possible.  But it also shows you individual threads that would be good to join in the conversation &#8211; with your link in the signature.  Same with blogs &#8211; it will tell you the posts that are ranked the highest &#8211; and would be best to comment on those first.  Another reason to use this report is for your own sites &#8211; in regards to pushing link juice to other pages that aren&#8217;t doing so well.  So let&#8217;s say you have a very high ranked page according to this report.  And you just created a new post and you want that to get more traffic and rankings.  You can easily add a link somewhere on the strongest page of your site, and that will take some of that authority and trust that that page has, and pass it along to your new page that you want to do rank better.  You can also take these urls and quickly create a backlink profile on them, by just clicking the links in the list.</p>
<p><strong>The Link Juice Thief</strong></p>
<p>This is a very unique tool &#8211; something I&#8217;ve never really even thought of to look for in this way.  What this does is analyze your competitors outbound urls &#8211; meaning it scans the pages on the domains you enter in the list (or scraped from the keyword you enter) &#8211; and looks for where those sites are linking TO.  If they are linking to a page ALREADY, and you can actually get a link on THAT page &#8211; you are in a sense, getting your competition to link to YOU (indirectly).  This is very cool.  Many sites, obviously you won&#8217;t be able to get links on, but there&#8217;s definitely going to be some that you can perhaps comment on or in some other way, get your links on.  For example, if your competition links to a blog post in your niche, and you go and post a comment on that post they linked to, they&#8217;re then linking to a page that you are already on &#8211; thus linking to you.  This tool makes it extremely easy to do your own link juice thievery!</p>
<p><strong>The Link Juice Recovery Tool</strong></p>
<p>This tool will analyze a domain and let you know if any of your backlinks are pointing to a page that doesn&#8217;t exist.  This is very useful &#8211; especially when outsourcing, as they may make typos when linking to your site(s).  Another very nice use for this is when you are buying domains.  You want to make sure any backlinks pointing to the domain you are buying, are pointing to a page that either exists or is redirected to a page that exists.  This will let you know of any sites linking to pages that you should updatec/create/redirect.</p>
<p><strong>The Missing Links Tool</strong></p>
<p>The missing links tool will compare the backlinks of your site, and the backlinks of your competitors, and then will give you a list of domains where your competitors have links but you don&#8217;t.  Naturally, you&#8217;ll want to get as many backlinks that they have, as possible.</p>
<p>Over-all, this set of backlink research tools is my favorite, out of all that I&#8217;ve tried so far.  It utilizes numerous data sources to compile these reports &#8211; which is great because any one service, by itself, generally misses a lot!  The reports are completed in a very timely manner (doesn&#8217;t take hours, usually less than a couple minutes actually), and presented to you in a very precise, and easy to read information &#8211; with very helpful graphs, charts, and tables full of sortable, filterable information &#8211; so you can gleam out exactly what you need, and get rid of the info that you don&#8217;t need.  Another useful feature is that you can save these reports as spreadsheets, images (all the charts, graphs, etc &#8211; you can actually save them as images to import into your own reporting if needed), or brandable PDFs (great if you&#8217;re a SEO agency).  The support has been quick to respond and I am confident that the reporting and services will only get better.  Definitely a good investment if you are interested in researching your competitors&#8217; backlink profiles, and/or examining your own sites to find areas needing improvement.<br />
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To learn more about Link Research Tools, visit </strong><a target="_blank" href="http://www.linkresearchtools.com">http://www.linkresearchtools.com</a></p>
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		<title>Senuke X and BHSeos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Senuke X has launched. BHSeos.com is doing a promotion with Senuke X. We&#8217;re offering 4 months free of BHSeos.com subscription. This is unique, because BHSeos.com is not open to the public &#8211; it&#8217;s $50/month however it&#8217;s a closed forum, not open for new registrations (there&#8217;s a waiting list though). So right now, the only [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>So Senuke X has launched. </strong></p>
<p>BHSeos.com is doing a promotion with Senuke X.  We&#8217;re offering 4 months free of BHSeos.com subscription.  This is unique, because BHSeos.com is not open to the public &#8211; it&#8217;s $50/month however it&#8217;s a closed forum, not open for new registrations (there&#8217;s a waiting list though).</p>
<p>So right now, the only way to even get into BHSeos.com is through this promotion.  Senuke X is launching in an hour or two.  They have a lifetime license subscription (first time ever).  It&#8217;s $1995 I believe.  If you buy Senuke Lifetime subscription using our link &#8211; we&#8217;ll throw you $200 worth of membership of BHSeos.com (4 free months access). Here&#8217;s the link:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://senuke.com/amember/go.php?r=102020&#038;i=l2">http://senuke.com/amember/go.php?r=102020&#038;i=l2</a></p>
<p><strong>What is BHSeos?</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s a private <a title="blackhat" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">blackhat</a> forum with link building case studies, <a title="xrumer" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">xrumer</a> tutorials, product reviews, but that&#8217;s not all.  We build our own custom backlink tools, most notable being BHSeos &#8220;Backlinker&#8221;.  This is the MOST powerful backlinking tool on the market.  You can get thousands of links with the push of a button (literally).  There&#8217;s nothing like it available anywhere. Subscription (if it was available) costs $50 a month.  We&#8217;ll give you 4 free months access to BHSeos if you purchase SeNuke X with the link below.  When the 4 month&#8217;s is up, you can choose to renew, or not.</p>
<p><strong>That&#8217;s not all&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>We&#8217;re also working on <strong><em>INTEGRATION</em></strong> with Senuke X.  Senuke X allows commandline access to 3rd party tools &#8211; to be utilized DURING the run.  In other words &#8211; you can have Senuke X create a linkwheel or a bunch of web 2.0 properties, then open up Backlinker (automatically) and it will get hundreds of links to all the new link properties you just created, then close backlinker, have Senuke X build some <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> links, then open Backlinker up again, backlink those new profile links, close it, go back to SeNuke and bookmark all those links.  Do you see the power this can have?  There will be NOTHING like it.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll only benefit from this if you are a BHSeos member.</p>
<p>So &#8211; go ahead and check out SeNuke X using the link below.  Remember to clear your browser cookies prior to clicking the link though!</p>
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<p>Once you purchase Senuke X &#8211; just send us a message <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/contact-us/">here</a> and we&#8217;ll do some verification and start setting up your subscription!</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Friendly Social Robot &#8211; New Link Building Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friendly Social Robot Review The Friendly Social Robot (to be referred to as FSR from now on) is a brand new tool developed by a new company, Mark8ters, Inc. FSR is a new link building tool, designed to help you not only get anchor text links within user profiles, but it also posts to various [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Friendly Social Robot Review</p>
<p>The Friendly Social Robot (to be referred to as FSR from now on) is a brand new tool developed by a new company, Mark8ters, Inc. FSR is a new link building tool, designed to help you not only get anchor text links within user profiles, but it also posts to various micro-blogging platforms, as well an interesting platform that allows bulletin posts, similar to forum threads. Once you learn how to use each platform that it exploits (and I&#8217;ll help you do this since I&#8217;ve done all the testing for you) &#8211; FSR becomes a very powerful link building tool. It makes getting hundreds of do-follow links extremely easy (and quick) and it also helps with attaining more &#8220;social buzz&#8221; for your sites (which is becoming more important every day it seems) because it hits social micro-blogging platforms and communities created for this purpose. </p>
<p>You can buy Friendly Social Robot here for $69 one-time fee &#8211; (there is no affiliate commission associated with this review or any other motivation, other than introducing a new program developed by a friend, and it&#8217;s a tool that can help automate some of your link building efforts): </p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://friendlysocialrobot.com/">http://friendlysocialrobot.com/</a> </p>
<p>(note &#8211; there isn&#8217;t any fancy sales page, just because this isn&#8217;t really being sold to the public &#8211; it&#8217;s currently only promoted here and soon, my blog)</p>
<p>Customers can contact support here: <a target="_blank" href="http://friendlysocialrobot.com/support">http://friendlysocialrobot.com/support</a></p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get down to what the tool actually does for you.</p>
<p>The platforms that FSR targets are as follows: Chyrp, PHPFox, StatusNet, Elgg, PhpIzabi, ShareTronix, Revou, &#038; Jisko. Some of these, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard of, and there might be a couple you haven&#8217;t. Granted &#8211; there&#8217;s not millions (or even thousands) of targets per platform, but it&#8217;s still a couple thousand links so it&#8217;s well worth hitting them for all the link juice we can get. Plus you can hit them many times using different keywords and promoting different sites. So let&#8217;s get started:</p>
<p>When you install the program &#8211; it will ask you if you want to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package &#8211; Go ahead and do so because the program requires some libraries from this. After installation, it will ask you for your license information which should have been given to you when you purchase the program. Once everything is installed, you can run it (you might have to &#8220;Run As Administrator&#8221;). If an update is available &#8211; it will pop-up asking if you want to update. You should always say yes. When it&#8217;s done updating, you&#8217;ll need to run it again. Once it&#8217;s running, you&#8217;ll see the main interface &#8211; it looks like this:</p>
<p><img src="http://bhseos.com/screenshots/fsr_screenshot2.png" /></p>
<p>The first thing you&#8217;ll want to do is scrape new targets. It already comes with around 2K targets &#8211; but new ones pop up all the time so it&#8217;s good to get some fresh targets added (won&#8217;t be a lot but still wise to do). Once it&#8217;s done scraping, it will then ask to verify them and then add them to your local database. Note: You can add your own targets by literally just pasting them into the window and hitting &#8220;Add and Verify Targets&#8221; button. The program uses it&#8217;s own footprints to scrape new targets, however you might be able to find better footprints yourself so it might be a good idea to give it a shot with Hrefer or <a title="Scrapebox" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/tag/scrapebox/">Scrapebox</a>, etc. The next step is creating a project. Just click on New/Load Project and choose New. All you do is choose a name for your project. It&#8217;s basically just a bucket to hold all your account registration information, etc.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll want to setup your captcha solving settings now. Decaptcher is the default, however there&#8217;s also support for Beatcaptcha, Deathbycaptcha, and Humancoder. You can, of course, opt to solve them yourself. Make sure to add your login details, as well as any pass key needed (not required for Decaptcher though &#8211; just username/pword). When you save, it will test to make sure it can connect to your captcha solving account.</p>
<p><strong>Registration</strong></p>
<p>Registering couldn&#8217;t be easier. There&#8217;s no email to setup, no names or <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> information needed &#8211; it&#8217;s all done for you (automated and randomized). All you need to do is add the URL (which is spinnable) you want to be used for your homepage url on your profile (although some platforms &#8211; the homepage url doesn&#8217;t get added during registration and the profile needs to edited later &#8211; which is easily done with FSR). Before clicking on &#8220;Start Registration&#8221; &#8211; make sure you have created/loaded the project you want these to be associated with. Also &#8211; choose whether you want to use Captcha solving, and also how many threads you want to utilize. You can also choose to only <a title="register" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/register/">register</a> accounts on a particular platform, or you can choose all of them (I always just register on all of them). When it&#8217;s done registering, you may notice that it didn&#8217;t create accounts on all the targets that are said to be available. This is because some sites time-out, or they were just too slow during the registration process, or they are just temporarily down. It&#8217;s okay &#8211; you can literally just click the register button again and it will try again (it will skip the targets you&#8217;ve already registered to). In fact, it&#8217;s good to do this process a few times, you&#8217;ll get many more registered accounts/targets this way. </p>
<p>So just by registering &#8211; with a few of the platforms, like StatusNet, &#038; Elgg &#8211; You&#8217;re already getting do-follow <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> on these user profiles.</p>
<p><strong>Editing Profiles</strong></p>
<p>The next step &#8211; which isn&#8217;t required, but definitely a very good idea to do &#8211; is the Edit profiles tab. What this does is log into all your accounts (again, you can choose a particular platform or just edit them all) &#8211; and edits the user profiles. You can have it add/change the homepage url (spinnable) and also add a spun bio or &#8220;about me&#8221; section to your profile. This is good to add more keyword related content &#8211; but not only can you add content here (spun) but most of the platforms actually allow you to drop links here. Just add html anchor text links within your bio and you get do-follow keyword anchor text links on your public profile pages. So you get a url link as well as keyword link(s). The bio&#8217;s &#8211; you should keep short, just a few sentences as most. I generally just write something about the keyword/website I&#8217;m trying to promote. So if I&#8217;m promoting a video game site, I&#8217;d write something like &#8220;I&#8217;m an avid gamer &#8211; I like playstation 3&#8243; and then I&#8217;d like the term &#8220;playstation 3&#8243; to my site. Or something lame like that  Again &#8211; it&#8217;s good to spin this content, because you don&#8217;t want all the profiles to have the exact same text. One thing to note here: FSR also uploads an actual avatar (profile picture) to your profiles when running the Edit profile function. This really helps in making your profile look more realistic. It comes with 40 or so profile pics, but it&#8217;s good (if possible) to add your own. You just need to add .jpg files to your &#8220;FriendlySocialRobotavatars&#8221; folder and it will randomly select one (each time it edits another profile) to use as your profile pic. That, plus a good, believable bio will definitely help with account longevity.</p>
<p><strong>Posting</strong></p>
<p>This next function is just as easy as the first two. There&#8217;s a few more fields to fill out: Post Title, URL, URL title, Message.</p>
<p>The Post title is pretty self explanatory. Just make sure your keyword is in the title. This isn&#8217;t used for all platforms though &#8211; but for the ones that it is used on &#8211; it&#8217;s important (it won&#8217;t post without it). It will be used, basically, like a blog post title, or forum thread title. The URL &#8211; again, self-explanatory. Just remember, you can spin every field in this program, so if you&#8217;re worried about too many links to your money pages, you can just spin the url and it won&#8217;t all point to the same page. The URL Title is basically the anchor text it will use for your link. Again &#8211; it&#8217;s important to spin this, so not all your links have the same anchor text (which isn&#8217;t good for SEO purposes, doesn&#8217;t look natural, etc). The message &#8211; this is important. It&#8217;s obviously the main way you&#8217;ll get your links (and you can re-post numerous messages using the same accounts &#8211; in fact, it&#8217;s better to do so). However, depending on the platform, you can have long posts (similar to a blog post or a forum thread post) &#8211; but some of the platforms only allow so many characters (usually best to stay under 300 characters). That being said, it IS good to take advantage of the longer content for the platforms that allow it (more content is better for seo purposes, and it will rank for more keywords, purely based on the # of words you can fit in the post). So it&#8217;s good to learn which platforms allow what &#8211; and I&#8217;ve already given us a jump start with this data. Below &#8211; I&#8217;ve tested each platform and determined how they work, with Friendly Social Robot. This is the most important aspect of this program &#8211; figuring out how each platform works and then exploiting each of them to the full potential. For example &#8211; you might want to write your posts differently for the PhpIzabi platform &#8211; because it doesn&#8217;t allow anchor text links in the posts. So &#8211; instead of making a post where the keyword link is a vital part of the sentence or phrase &#8211; I would write the post so that the link would just be mentioned before or after a sentence, but not written inside the sentence (since it will just become a clickable url &#8211; not a clickable word). You can read below for more particulars about each platform.</p>
<p>Notes about the platforms used and abused by FSR:</p>
<p><strong>Chyrp (blog commenting)</strong></p>
<p>Homepage url not populated during registration. Profile needs to be edited after account registration. Homepage url gets used when posts (comments) are added &#8211; the username becomes a link to the homepage url you include in your profile. Links are allowed in the comment themselves as well. So after you create accounts &#8211; edit your profile and add your homepage links, etc.. Then post (which is really commenting on blog posts) &#8211; thus allowing you to get at least two links, one in the comment and one on your username. Comments can&#8217;t be too long. Keep under 300 characters. Chyrp posting won&#8217;t be high numbers though &#8211; there&#8217;s heavy spam moderation and many blogs don&#8217;t allow comments period. Plus it&#8217;s just a low target number.</p>
<p><strong>PhpFox (board posting, public profile links)</strong></p>
<p>Homepage url not populated in profile during registration. Profile needs to be edited after account registration. Some sites require you to upload a profile pic before you can edit your profile (FSR will upload your avatar images for you!). So &#8211; make sure you have profile images (jpgs) in your avatar folder, ie. c:mark8ersavatars<br />
The phpfox profiles allow links in the About Me section (which most are do-follow) &#8211; so make sure you add links in your profile Bio field.<br />
With the posting function &#8211; PHPFox sites have bulletins &#8211; so you can add your links in the post and it will create it&#8217;s own thread with your post title and links. Content can be as long for this platform. It&#8217;s posted in your user account&#8217;s bulletin&#8217;s which is public accessible.</p>
<p><strong>StatusNet (micro-blog, public profile links)</strong></p>
<p>Your homepage url does get populated in profile during registration so no need for editing profiles. Posting will be similar to tweets. Add a link into your post and it will be posted as a status update. Good for indexing. Content can&#8217;t be long &#8211; keep under 300 characters. No keyword anchor text though &#8211; so make sure your content doesn&#8217;t require the keyword as part of the sentence.</p>
<p><strong>Elgg (blog, public profile links)</strong></p>
<p>Your homepage url does get added to your profile during registration but you can still edit profiles for adding about me (bio) content with your links included. Posting will be create blog posts where you can add a lot of content and links. Content can be long for this platform. </p>
<p><strong>PhpIzabi (blog posts)</strong></p>
<p>Homepage url doesn&#8217;t get populated in profile during registration because there is no profile link allowed. You can edit your profile to get some keyword related content in the account, but I&#8217;m not sure how beneficial it is &#8211; since it&#8217;s not shown on the blog post pages. The links for this platform don&#8217;t allow keyword anchor text, so when posting, just make sure the url is surrounded by keyword related content if you want your keywords to be associated with these links. In other words &#8211; don&#8217;t make the keywords/links &#8220;part&#8221; of the content &#8211; so just post a blurb of content, and then a url &#8211; and it will make the url a link.</p>
<p><strong>ShareTronix (micro-blog and public profile links)</strong></p>
<p>Homepage url doesn&#8217;t get populated in profile during registration so run the edit profiles function after account creation. Profile links are do-follow. Some of the posts with included links are no-followed (varies from site to site). Very strange platform &#8211; the links are no-followed via JS insertion and then it seems the no-follow tag is removed after 8 seconds or so. Not sure why. Anyhow &#8211; this is a microblog so content can&#8217;t be that long.</p>
<p><strong>Jisko (micro-blog and public profile links)</strong></p>
<p>Homepage url doesn&#8217;t get populated during registration &#8211; so run edit profile function after account creation. Profile links are do-follow and shown on the user&#8217;s public page &#8211; as well as all their posts. Posts are limited to 140 characters though. There&#8217;s not a lot of targets for this platform but there&#8217;s no reason to not include it during posting/editing profiles.</p>
<p>Conclusion &#8211; It&#8217;s well written. There&#8217;s always room for improvement (as with all tools) &#8211; however it works well, and it&#8217;s a very good way to diversify your backlink profiles. I, personally, will be using it as one of the tools in my arsenal. Will it give you page one rankings? I doubt it &#8211; however, there isn&#8217;t a tool out there that will, by itself (for long term results). Nowadays, you just need link diversity and this tool helps with this problem. It gives you 8 more platforms to get links from, and it does so with great ease. It allows you to create accounts and edit the profiles (with profile pics) at a later time for better account longevity. And a few of the platforms allow for posting pretty much full articles with links in the content. Most of the output allows you to copy the links that this program creates so that you can further promote those links with other tools. The developer is dedicated to supporting and improving the tool (as he has been for awhile now). There&#8217;s already some new features in the works. </p>
<p>Just a side note: In my testing of this program &#8211; I used a brand new site that wasn&#8217;t promoted &#8211; and when doing searches for the domain name, there&#8217;s already many links showing up (profiles are getting indexed with no help from me or any other program). </p>
<p>So &#8211; just to be clear, this wasn&#8217;t developed by BHSeos team. I wrote this review because I was asked to and I believe it&#8217;s a good program. I&#8217;m not getting any commission from this. Friendly Social Robot is not expensive and there&#8217;s no recurring fees. Just a one time fee of $69. Click the following link to buy it: </p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://friendlysocialrobot.com/">http://friendlysocialrobot.com/</a></p>
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		<title>Backlinker &#8211; Another New Tool From BHSeos.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new backlink tool is now available, exclusively for BHSeos.com members only. It&#8217;s called Backlinker (yes, the name is VERY creative) and this tool is very, very cool. Backlinker is a very easy to use tool that can generate thousands of backlinks very quickly. You give it a list of links and keywords (or it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new backlink tool is now available, exclusively for <a target="_blank" href="http://bhseos.com">BHSeos.com</a> members only.  It&#8217;s called Backlinker (yes, the name is VERY creative) and this tool is very, very cool.  Backlinker is a very easy to use tool that can generate thousands of <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> very quickly.  You give it a list of links and keywords (or it will scrape your sitemap and populate it for you), and it goes and harvests links based on the plugins that are installed, and then spams them extremely fast.  It&#8217;s very simple to use, but don&#8217;t let the ease of use fool you.  It&#8217;s extremely advanced and very good at what it does.</p>
<p>First &#8211; you create a new project.  Here&#8217;s a screenshot of what the project details looks like:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://bhseos.com"><img style="border: 1px solid #666666; outline: medium none;" src="/images/BL-Screenshot-3.png" alt="" width="548" height="322" /></a></p>
<p>So you fill out the project name, base URL, main keywords, and the captcha service you use (currently Decaptcher and DeathByCaptcha is supported) &#8211; and you need a captcha service because all current plugins require captchas to be filled out.  Then you check the plugins you want to use for this project.</p>
<p>Click on the next tab, which is &#8220;Page Spider&#8221;.  This tab will allow you to spider your site&#8217;s XML sitemap so that it can auto-populate your deep links as well as the meta keywords used.  But don&#8217;t worry, you don&#8217;t need a sitemap or even deep links to use Backlinker (however it&#8217;s better to build links to pages other than your index page). You can go to the project overview, where it shows all of your urls and keywords, and you can add them in manually. So go ahead and save your project, click the &#8220;Is Active&#8221; checkbox and your project is ready to be started!</p>
<p>Go to the status tab and choose the # of threads (you can use a maximum of 50 threads, however there will be lower success rate if you don&#8217;t have enough bandwidth/processor/ram to support them).  Click Start and it will begin the process.  Here&#8217;s a screenshot of what a running project looks like:</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://bhseos.com"><img style="border: 1px solid #666666; outline: medium none;" src="/images/BL-Screenshot-6.png" alt="" width="548" height="322" /></a></p>
<p>Many new features and plugins are on the way, including a better GUI, scheduling, new targets to spam, etc.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://bhseos.com">Backlinker</a> is exclusively for BHSeos.com members only and it&#8217;s included with your membership subscription (as are all our custom programs).  This new tool by itself, would be several hundred dollars, plus many new and exciting programs are on the way, as well as in-depth tutorials and discussions about <a title="blackhat" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">blackhat</a> methods and strategies, advanced seo techniques, and more. Currently, membership is only $10 a month. Check out BHSeos.com now!</p>
<p><strong><a target="_blank" href="http://bhseos.com/register.php">REGISTER NOW FOR BHSEOS.COM</a></strong></p>
<p>UPDATE: The price for BHSeos.com subscription is now $25/month. </p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Social Backlinker Pro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Backlinker (Pro) is an amazing wordpress plugin that handles a lot of the basic off-site SEO promotion of your blogs (to aid with indexing as well as continual, random backlinking). There are two options, the base Social Backlinker plugin, and then there is Social Backlinker Pro. There&#8217;s several unique features that make even the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social Backlinker (Pro) is an amazing wordpress plugin that handles a lot of the basic off-site SEO promotion of your blogs (to aid with indexing as well as continual, random backlinking).</p>
<p>There are two options, the base Social Backlinker plugin, and then there is Social Backlinker <strong>Pro</strong>. There&#8217;s several unique features that make even the base version of this plugin, light years ahead of others.  Plus there&#8217;s add-on modules you can buy (at a low price point) &#8211; which open up more sites to promote your posts.</p>
<p>You can purchase Social Backlinker now by <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialbacklinker">clicking here</a>.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the base plugin.  What Social Backlinker does &#8211; is basically ping, and bookmark your posts.  The base program comes with these modules: Twitter, identi.ca, Tumblr, Delicious (pre-Yahoo accounts only), Diigo, Blog.com, Ping.fm &#038; StumbleUpon (however there are more available for purchase).  What makes it different from other similar plugins, is that it doesn&#8217;t only bookmark and ping your posts at the point of posting.  It does so, to MULTIPLE accounts (hundreds or thousands if you want) &#8211; but also at RANDOM times.  You set a percentage of randomness and whether or not you want it to run at the time of posting or just at random times, and you can set the start date.  So let&#8217;s say you had 10 accounts for one module &#8211; you can have 1 account get used every time you post, and then you can have another account start running at random times, from a week out.  Then you can have more accounts start posting randomly next month.  You can have it start new accounts all the way till the next century if you wanted.  That&#8217;s what is so cool about this &#8211; you can make it seem like your blog is naturally growing in popularity.  This is VERY different from other auto-bookmarking plugins..  They usually only work with one account and they usually run only at the post date. That makes your blog promotion seem very un-natural (is that a word?).  There&#8217;s no randomness or growth involved with it.  That&#8217;s what I love about Social Backlinker.  You decide &#8211; at what percentage &#8211; you want the posibility of this account posting a random post of your blog.  And it will continue to do so &#8211; &#8220;possibly&#8221; posting another post of yours to this account.</p>
<p>When you install and activate the Social Backlinker plugin &#8211; you need to add your verification email to the configuration.  Once that&#8217;s done &#8211; you can start either manually adding your accounts, or you can import a CSV file with the account information.  That&#8217;s the easiest way.  And if you want to get the accounts created for a cheap price &#8211; contact me on my blog and I can have them created for you &#8211; and even output into the correct CSV format for Social Backlinker.  Once you have added all your accounts &#8211; you need to decide which accounts have what percentage of posting, whether you want it to post random posts, or if you want it to run every time you write a new post on your blog, how frequent you want the account posted to (how many minutes in between each run), and whether you want that account to show up in the sidebar (widget) of your blog theme.  A great feature of this plugin is that if you have hundreds of accounts like I do, you don&#8217;t have to do this for each account. You can select multiple accounts (or all of them) and give it a range of options and it will randomly set each account based on your range that you set.  I typically will have it set 25%-45% chance of posting and have the frequency set between 300 and 450 minutes.  I&#8217;ll usually set one account per module &#8211; to post every time I post.  And I don&#8217;t add any accounts to the sidebar. And I have each account start posting at different dates &#8211; depending on how many accounts I have, I&#8217;ll have them start over a period of a few months &#8211; to a year (if I have a LOT).</p>
<p>Now &#8211; the fun stuff.  Social Backlinker PRO.  This is just an amazing feat.  What this adds to the feature set is actually really impressive.  One of the main features is called &#8220;content fuzzing&#8221;.  What this does is add OTHER links and content to your accounts &#8211; other than your own links and sites/content.  So let&#8217;s say you have an account &#8211; not starting to post for another month.  Well, instead of that account just sitting there, doing nothing, you can have the program start scraping and posting other links and content to it &#8211; that have nothing to do with your blog.  This gives the account some randomness, some content to get indexed, and it makes it seem more natural.  And it will continue to &#8220;fuzz&#8221; your account even when it IS posting your content and links.  This is a very important feature and will add longetivity to your accounts &#8211; since they don&#8217;t appear to be self promoting (these social sites don&#8217;t appreciate that).  With content fuzzing &#8211; you can also have it link to other accounts of yours, as well as it will spin the content using taggable templates.  You can view the full documentation on the SB sales site.  It will randomly select any one of your templates &#8211; allowing for extremely unique and random content.  Really impressive for a bookmarking plugin (you can hardly even call it that anymore).</p>
<p>Another PRO feature is the ability to use Proxies &#8211; so that not all the postings appear from the same server.  Pinging your <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> urls is also an added benefit of the PRO version as well as an exclusive add-on module &#8220;Amplify&#8221;.  </p>
<p>The last, but extremely important feature that the PRO version gives you, is an activity log.  This will let you know what the plugin is doing, and when.  And also show you possible errors you are experiencing (this could let you know that you have a closed account or you entered the account data wrong).</p>
<p>I highly recommend Social Backlinker Pro.  It&#8217;s one of the easiest, hands off ways to promote your blogs.  It adds random and continual growth and &#8220;buzz&#8221; to your sites.  I have put this on all my blogs (including this one) and will continue to.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialbacklinker">CLICK HERE NOW TO BUY SOCIAL BACKLINKER</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Cookie Labs</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/the-cookie-labs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cookie labs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookie stuffing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookie stuffing wp plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cs plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the cookie labs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Cookie Labs is a new WordPress plugin which, as you can imagine, helps you cookie stuff your sites &#8211; to allow you to make money without actually selling anything. I&#8217;ve been beta-testing this for awhile and I love it. I want to get something out of the way, right in the beginning. I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Cookie Labs is a new WordPress plugin which, as you can imagine, helps you cookie stuff your sites &#8211; to allow you to make money without actually selling anything. I&#8217;ve been beta-testing this for awhile and I love it.</p>
<p>I want to get something out of the way, right in the beginning.  I&#8217;m not here to tell you whether cookie stuffing is safe, or whether it&#8217;s honorable or not, or whether or not you will get your accounts banned or not (we will get into this later).  You will have to make this decision for yourself.  All I can say is &#8211; you CAN make decent money doing it, and you&#8217;ll need a script to help you achieve this.</p>
<div style="float: left; padding-right: 10px;"><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/thecookielabs"><img src="/images/tcl.gif" style="outline: none; border: none;" /></a></div>
<p>So &#8211; what IS cookie stuffing?  It&#8217;s when someone visits your site &#8211; and they get your cookies, regardless of whether or not they clicked on your link. It&#8217;s like &#8220;forcing them&#8221; to click your link, however it&#8217;s not visible to them, and nothing really happens&#8230; they don&#8217;t click anything, nothing pops up..  You&#8217;re not infecting them.. You just get paid a commission if they eventually visit the merchant that you are targeting, and buy something.  That&#8217;s it.  There&#8217;s several sides to the argument of whether or not this is right &#8211; however it really depends on how you are using it.  There ARE in fact, legitimate reasons for using scripts like this &#8211; but I&#8217;m not going to get further into this matter.  You will decide whether this is for you or not.  </p>
<p>The Cookie Labs is the easiest stuffing script you&#8217;ll ever use.  But don&#8217;t let that fool you &#8211; it&#8217;s very advanced and very well written.  I know the programmer &#8211; and he&#8217;s a great guy that definitely knows what he&#8217;s doing and he WILL support this project.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with what you get when you purchase <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/thecookielabs">The Cookie Labs</a> ($50 OFF when purchasing through this link!).</p>
<p>First &#8211; you get a <strong>WordPress plugin AND a standalone script</strong> (to stuff PHP sites that aren&#8217;t based on WP) and potentially more plugins (like pligg or joomla) could be easily added if there is enough demand.</p>
<p>Second &#8211; you get a <strong>centralized control center</strong> &#8211; which is a self-hosted script that you (easily) install on one of your domains.  This is where you control ALL your cookie stuffing campaigns, ie. the drop frequencies, the affiliate links used, the custom referrers <-- more on this in a minute, whether you want to play, pause, or stop your campaigns.  It lets you know how many cookies have dropped, the CTR's, the domains you have running or paused, etc.  </p>
<p>The centralized control server feature is important -- Many other CS plugins don't have this.  And imagine you had a link network, or 1000 autoblogs.  And you wanted to change something.  That would take days of logging in and out of each site.  With the centralized server - you click one button or change one reflink - and ALL your blogs will be dropping the new cookie.  It's amazing, and very efficient. You can bulk add 1000 domains if you wanted - and have them all stuffing the same cookie - or each one could have their own cookies...  You can have it stuff multiple cookies and it will randomly select one (so if you wanted to make it more natural by having a dozen reflinks or banner links from various parts of your site).</p>
<p>Let's go over one of the most important feature of this plugin.  The ability to cookie stuff based on referrers that YOU set.  What does this do for you?  It allows you to stuff ONLY the visitors coming from a site of your choice (you can just put the domain if you want it to stuff them if they came from ANY page of that site OR you can put a specific URL in case you want to stuff based on a specific landing page).  So not only can you choose to stuff based on a referrer (only stuff visitors coming from facebook for example) but you can ALSO stuff *different* cookies based on *different* referrers - in other words, the reflink (affiliate link or whatever you use) is tied to the referrer you set.  Here's a screenshot of the control center showing multiple reflinks using specific referrers set.  </p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="/images/multiple-reflinks.png"><img src="/images/th-multiple-reflinks.png" style="border: 1px solid #666; outline: none; margin-left: 200px;" /></a></p>
<p>So you can have different CS campaigns running on the same site &#8211; based on traffic coming from different sites.  This allows you to stay under the radar.  How?  Because let&#8217;s say you decided to put a bare affiliate link in the setup (something you shouldn&#8217;t do) &#8211; that would show your cookie stuffing site as the referrer.  BUT you at least remembered to set the referrer to facebook.  That means if the affiliate manager comes poking around your site &#8211; they will see NO evidence of cookie stuffing because there IS NO cookie stuffing going on.  They didn&#8217;t come from facebook!  And no &#8211; it won&#8217;t be in google&#8217;s cache because the plugin is smart enough to NOT cookie stuff when being visited by Google bots and the likes (other search engines).  Another thing you can do is only stuff visitors that come from the search engines (by adding &#8220;google, bing, yahoo&#8221; to the custom referrer option) &#8211; however that&#8217;s usually not very smart since most AM&#8217;s will check the SERPS (precisely for this reason and checking google cache) &#8211; but you can if you want.</p>
<p>Ideally &#8211; what you want to do is have two step process.  You send traffic to one place (whether it&#8217;s a site you own, or facebook, or twitter, whatever) &#8211; and get people to click over to your cookie stuffing site.  Then in your Cookie Labs control center &#8211; you set the custom referrer to that first site.  Now &#8211; even if someone were to somehow find out about your cookie stuffing site &#8211; they would never get stuffed, because you are only stuffing people that came from a site you specifically sent traffic to.  YOU control who you are stuffing, and then YOU control the game.  If you want to make more money, then send more traffic (via PPV, PPC, organic traffic, whatever). It&#8217;s that easy!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m pretty excited about this script.  Most cookie stuffing scripts&#8230; they just don&#8217;t do this much (or if they do &#8211; they&#8217;re incredibly complex to setup).  This product is extremely easy to use and works very well&#8230; There are MANY, MANY ways you can utilize this program to make money &#8211; and I will be going through these methods soon (starting another site/forum &#8211; more on that later).  But one quick way is to just use this as another, easy way to monetize your sites, ie. do you have sites that just don&#8217;t convert very well?  Do you have a blog network that isn&#8217;t necessarily there to make you direct income?  What about an autoblog that gets loads of traffic but no sales?  Throw this plugin on it &#8211; if you get traffic, you can make EASY money.  I promise you.  Cookie stuffing is the one, for sure, way to make money online, where you don&#8217;t need to sell ANYTHING.  You literally get paid for having people visit your site. They don&#8217;t have to read anything, or click on anything &#8211; if they go to the merchant&#8217;s site that you stuffed them with &#8211; you will make that commission.</p>
<p>When you first purchase this powerful plugin &#8211; you&#8217;ll be asked to send the domain URL that you plan on installing the Cookie Labs control center on.  They will then unlock it for you &#8211; and you can get started right away!  If you know how to install a WP plugin &#8211; you&#8217;ll be able to easily get this going in no time.  It may take up to 12 hours to get your domain unlocked (just due to time differences, etc) but you won&#8217;t be waiting long.  Also &#8211; you need to have ioncube installed on the server.  If it&#8217;s not installed &#8211; just ask your host to install it. It&#8217;s pretty standard though so it won&#8217;t be that hard for them if it&#8217;s not already there.</p>
<p>Keep an eye on this blog &#8211; for MANY more methods to using this program (and others coming soon)!</p>
<p><strong>Oh &#8211; and if you buy from this page &#8211; you will get $50 discount.  It costs $189 regularly&#8230; For my readers &#8211; it&#8217;s only $139.  I highly recommend this &#8211; it will be supported, and will only get better.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Footprints for Instant Social Anarchy Targets</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/footprints-for-instant-social-anarchy-targets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elgg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[footprints]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[instant social anarchy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[isa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jisko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[laconica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micro-blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scrapebox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[status.net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yonkly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Instant Social Anarchy (to be called &#8220;ISA&#8221; from now on) is a program that utilizes (ie. spams) social sites that are twitter clones, or micro-blogging services. Basically, you can easily create multiple (read: hundreds of) accounts very quickly &#8211; and then post your micro-blogs or blurbs which generally contain/promote a URL. Most will not allow [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialanarchy">Instant Social Anarchy</a> (to be called &#8220;ISA&#8221; from now on) is a program that utilizes (ie. spams) social sites that are twitter clones, or micro-blogging services.  Basically, you can easily create multiple (read: hundreds of) accounts very quickly &#8211; and then post your micro-blogs or blurbs which generally contain/promote a URL.  Most will not allow anchor-text keyword links and many will, by default, use a link shortener.  Within IAS, you can create a &#8220;link pool&#8221; &#8211; which contains a list of urls and associated keywords (which it adds as hash tags since they won&#8217;t become anchor texts).  Although I don&#8217;t use the link pools when I post, I do still create and use them for account creation, since it adds those links to the user profiles it creates.  During posting, I&#8217;ll add bare URLs to the &#8220;blurb&#8221; &#8211; because they will be come clickable links, although some sites will still shorten them with a service like bit.ly (you can however, turn this off many times, in your user <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> &#8211; but when you&#8217;re dealing with hundreds of accounts &#8211; who has time?).  I typically won&#8217;t use this as a means for backlinking, although it doesn&#8217;t hurt&#8230;  I use this as a means of getting my <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> indexed and strengthened..  So posting clickable URL link is fine for these purposes.</p>
<p>ISA comes with a list of targets so you can get started with the software right away.  A &#8220;target&#8221; is a site that is utilizing one of the services it knows how to create accounts and post on.  There are 5 types of sites it can spam &#8211; Status.net (or Laconica), Yonkly, Revou, Jisko, and Elgg.  They are all pretty similar, all twitter clones.  The sites or targets that IAS comes with are already heavily abused and account creation successes are getting very far and few between.  So how do you get hundreds of accounts?  By scraping your own fresh list of targets to spam.  The easiest way to do this is to use my favorite program, &#8220;<a title="Scrapebox" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/tag/scrapebox/">Scrapebox</a>&#8221;.  </p>
<p>In order for Scrapebox to do it&#8217;s job &#8211; it needs a footprint, which is a common element within the sites you are targeting.  Footprints are typically some phrase that&#8217;s on every site that uses that software, or some common element in the URL strings.  Below, I list some common footprints you can use with Scrapebox &#8211; so it can scrape the search engines and get a fresh list of sites that have those common footprints.  There&#8217;s one problem though &#8211; Scrapebox works better when you are using a footprint WITH a keyword.  It uses one connection per keyword &#038; footprint combination.  So if you don&#8217;t enter any keywords, it will only use one connection and can only find a small amount of sites..  So what I do is scrape a list of general keywords (such as: computers, sports, electronics, celebrities, etc) &#8211; then I get a huge list of keywords associated to those and enter those in combination with the footprint &#8211; so I can have Scrapebox actually scrape a really large list of targets.  You will, of course, get a LOT of duplicates, since there are only so many sites that use these micro-blogging frameworks &#8211; but with a huge list of keywords, you should still get several hundred new targets that others won&#8217;t be abusing since they won&#8217;t bother with taking the time to do all this (even though it only takes a few minutes &#8211; internet marketers are lazy by nature&#8230; it&#8217;s why they chose this field&#8230;  they were lured by the gurus&#8217; who told them they can make money in their sleep&#8230; hah)</p>
<p>Anyhow &#8211; back to the footprints&#8230;  Here&#8217;s some footprints to get you started:</p>
<p><strong>- Footprints for: Status.net &#038; Laconica</strong><br />
allintitle:&#8221;Public timeline -&#8221;<br />
&#8220;a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software&#8221;<br />
&#8220;It runs the Laconica microblogging software, version&#8221;<br />
&#8220;It runs the Status.net microblogging software, version&#8221;<br />
allintitle &#8220;Public Timeline -&#8221;</p>
<p>Note: I found [strong]2,451[/strong] unique domain targets using Scrapebox</p>
<p><strong>- Footprints for: Yonkly</strong><br />
[FOR YAHOO] inurl:&#8221;yonkly.com&#8221;<br />
[FOR GOOGLE, BING, AOL] &#8220;Yonkly, Knowledge not Noise&#8221;</p>
<p>Note: I only found [strong]367[/strong] unique domain targets using Scrapebox (you need to scrape the yahoo footprint separately and then combine them and remove duplicates)</p>
<p><strong>- Footprints for: Revou</strong><br />
&#8220;Tell the world what you&#8217;re doing at this moment!&#8221;</p>
<p>Note: I found [strong]897[/strong] unique domain targets using this footprint. </p>
<p><strong>- Footprints for: Jisko</strong><br />
&#8220;Powered by Jisko&#8221;</p>
<p>Note: I found [strong]782[/strong] unique domains using Scrapebox</p>
<p><strong>- Footprints for: Elgg</strong><br />
&#8220;Powered by Elgg, the leading open source social networking platform&#8221;</p>
<p>Note: I found 2,742 unique domain targets using Scrapebox</p>
<p>So &#8211; I found a total of 7,239 fresh targets to use with <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialanarchy">ISA</a> &#8211; targets that for the most part, aren&#8217;t being abused by everyone.  And that&#8217;s only with the footprints I mentioned above.  There&#8217;s probably many more footprints that will get you more results&#8230;  And if you target other keywords too &#8211; you&#8217;ll find different targets.. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialanarchy">&#8211; Click Here To Purchase Instant Social Anarchy! &#8211;</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Article Drove &#8211; New Article Writing Service</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/article-drove-new-article-writing-service/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article drove]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[article writing service]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Article Drove is a great, new article writing service. It&#8217;s similar to other member-based article sites &#8211; in that they have writers on staff, you pay a nominal monthly fee, and order and receive articles administered by their member site. Where Article Drove differs is in the extremely easy to use website &#8211; it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/articledrove">Article Drove</a> is a great, new article writing service.  It&#8217;s similar to other member-based article sites &#8211; in that they have writers on staff, you pay a nominal monthly fee, and order and receive articles administered by their member site.  Where Article Drove differs is in the extremely easy to use website &#8211; it&#8217;s a very simple site to navigate, and really quick/easy to order articles based on your exact specifications (such as long-tail keywords, word count, document type, style of writing &#8211; ie. promotional, seo, article submission site, etc). And my experience with other article sites is that the quality of the content is hit or miss &#8211; depending on the writer you get.  The quality of the articles I&#8217;ve received from Article Drove is definitely top-notch.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/articledrove">&#8211; CLICK HERE TO JOIN ARTICLE DROVE &#8211;</a></p>
<p>Once you order your articles, the amount gets deducted from your balance (which you pre-load) and you get your articles within the specified time.  When I ordered my articles, and I got them the next day (I do not know if this is typical though).  Every article was extremely well-written. The articles are so good that I am using them for my &#8220;money site&#8221; content.  I give this service an A+.</p>
<p>After you create an account and <a title="login" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/login/">login</a>, the first thing you need to do is add funds to your account.  You can add funds easily via Paypal.</p>
<p>When you login &#8211; you&#8217;ll see two main options in the &#8220;Dashboard&#8221; &#8211; Create New Article and View All Articles.  Viewing your articles is how you can check to see if the articles are done (you will also get notified via email when they are completed) and if so, you can download the completed articles there.</p>
<p>When you select &#8220;Create new article&#8221; &#8211; you&#8217;re brought to the main order page where you configure the type of article(s) you need.  It starts with the article title.  Below that you can select whether you want expedited service (36 hour delivery).  This is good if you are in a rush for content.  The next step is to state how many words per article you want.  I typically go for 500 words for web 2.0 properties or general content, but for money sites, you should go for longer articles, 750 words or more.  It will be worth it in my opinion &#8211; the more content, the more authority you will seem to have in the eyes of the search engines (of course, this is my opinion and not fact).</p>
<p>The next step is to specify your keywords.  The more keywords, the more expensive.  Generally, I stick to one keyword (which is included in the price of the article) per article &#8211; but for longer articles, you might want to add another.  Then they ask for Keyword density.  Personally, I don&#8217;t care &#8211; but I definitely want it minimized so I can submit to sites like Ezine Articles.  I&#8217;d just enter 1%.  The next question is pretty unique &#8211; it asks what Style you want the article to be written. The choices are: SEO Informative, SEO Promotional, Blog content, forum content, and Ezine qualified article.  I&#8217;d choose SEO informative if you are worried about keyword placement, etc..  Blog content for web 2.0 properties, and Ezine qualified article for money sites and article site submissions.  Then you select what type of output you want the article given to you in.  This is good because sometimes you get some strange formats with extra characters.. I&#8217;ve seen it all&#8230; You can choose from: .doc, .docx, .txt, and .html.</p>
<p>The rest of the questions are optional, like special instructions, summaries, they&#8217;ll add a resource box and/or bio box if you want.. You can have your keywords highlighted, and can have the article sources listed (this is good so you know where the content came from and can compare if needed &#8211; this is important for money site content so you can be sure you&#8217;re not ripping someone off).</p>
<p>All in all &#8211; this website and service is very easy to use and I can vouch for the quality of articles written &#8211; the articles I ordered were excellent.  Like I said before &#8211; they are good enough to put on money sites, for sure.</p>
<p>If you want to join Article Drove &#8211; there&#8217;s a nominal monthly fee of $9.95 but it&#8217;s well worth it if you continually need quality articles at very good prices.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/articledrove">&#8211; CLICK HERE TO JOIN ARTICLE DROVE &#8211;</a></p>
<p>UPDATE:  There&#8217;s now a $1 Trial being offered.  Try out their service for $1 for the first week.  After the week is up, you&#8217;ll get charged the remainder for the month.  This is an easy way to test them out to make sure the quality is up to par.  <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/articledrove-freetrial">CLICK HERE FOR $1 WEEK TRIAL</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Instant Social Anarchy Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 15:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instant Social Anarchy is another automation tool and as you can probably guess from the name &#8211; it&#8217;s about dominating social sites, specifically micro blog sites. I&#8217;m sure you know about Twitter, and those types of social sites &#8211; well, these are sort of like twitter clones. They mostly use the Status.net platform, as well [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Instant Social Anarchy is another automation tool and as you can probably guess from the name &#8211; it&#8217;s about dominating social sites, specifically micro blog sites.  I&#8217;m sure you know about Twitter, and those types of social sites &#8211; well, these are sort of like twitter clones.  They mostly use the Status.net platform, as well as Revou.  Basically, these are sites that let you easily create accounts and post your &#8220;updates&#8221; on them &#8211; limited to a # of characters (something like 140 or 160 characters) &#8211; just like Twitter.  What&#8217;s different about these sites is that they are do-follow links.  Naturally, they get abused and although there are some sites that are high traffic, high page rank&#8230; Most are not.  But that&#8217;s okay &#8211; you&#8217;re here to get easy <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a>, and that&#8217;s exactly what this tool does for you, and it does it well.</p>
<p>The tool itself is extremely easy to use, very fast, and you can be well on your way to having hundreds of accounts and hundreds of posts within a couple hours of purchasing this program. It&#8217;s that quick!</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialanarchy">&#8211; Click here to buy Instant Social Anarchy &#8211;</a></p>
<p>The strength of this tool (and it&#8217;s weakness) lies in the targets it&#8217;s exploiting (status.net and revou).  They are extremely easy to spam &#8211; and I don&#8217;t foresee that changing anytime soon so I am guessing this tool has a long shelf-life.  As you know, many tools that do things &#8220;too well&#8221; &#8211; end up ruining the very targets it&#8217;s exploiting because too many people take advantage of the loopholes &#8211; too quickly.  You&#8217;ll see this happening all the time with Web 2.0 properties that tools like Senuke uses..  That&#8217;s one of the reasons programs like Senuke and SerpAssist are so expensive.  The programmers need to stay on top of all the different platforms (there are a lot of them) and make changes when the platforms change.  This is very time-consuming.  However, status.net sites have been around for awhile and have been spammed since the beginning and nothing has really changed.  For example &#8211; the reason Instant Social Anarchy can create so many accounts so quickly is because it doesn&#8217;t have to verify the emails!  (That little nugget was provided by a friend &#8211; Omgriffin)  Here&#8217;s another tip: Do you know what other site doesn&#8217;t make you verify the email?  TWITTER.COM  &#8212; Yes, you see a warning at the top, but go test it out &#8211; having that warning message that you haven&#8217;t verified your email doesn&#8217;t prevent you from doing anything on Twitter.  So they are just opening the floodgates for spammers to have their way, and that&#8217;s exactly what this tool does.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start by going through step-by-step &#8211; what you need to do to start utilizing this tool.</p>
<p><strong>1. Create your project:</strong> First &#8211; you choose a project name.  I typically will choose a name corresponding to the domain or niche I&#8217;m promoting.  Then you select which networks to spam.  The networks available right now are Status.net, Yonkly, Revou, Jisko, and Elgg.  You also are able to add your Twitter username and password &#8211; I&#8217;ve never done this and I&#8217;m not positive on what it does (it obviously will post to Twitter but I don&#8217;t know how often or what it&#8217;s posting &#8211; in the documentation it mentions something about posting your affiliate links for Instant Social Anarchy here, but again, I don&#8217;t know what this entails.).  You then select your Profile Template &#8211; this is basically just giving your profile a name and adding a bio or &#8220;about me&#8221; text.  This is where you can put something like &#8220;I&#8217;m a stay at home mom working part-time on the internet&#8221;.  You want to make it sound natural.  After you select your template, there&#8217;s a checkbox to allow posting to explicit sites.  What this means is that it will post to sites that are adult in nature (there are several sites that cater to adult subject matter).  Depending on what you are promoting, you might not want to associate with this type of link so it&#8217;s up to you..  Next &#8211; Save your project.</p>
<p><strong>2. <a title="Register" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/register/">Register</a> Accounts -</strong> This is extremely easy (one of the best things about this program is that it&#8217;s quick and easy to use).  Here, you choose &#8220;concurrent tasks&#8221; level which is just how many threads you want it to use.  If you have an old computer, set it low, below 10.  If you have a new(er) computer, set it to the max, 35 I believe.  I set mine to the max &#8211; it goes much quicker then.  Captcha Service &#8211; you can choose between 3 services I believe.  And this part is a little strange.  The user interface for this part is very annoying because it&#8217;s not very easy to tell how to select a different service.  In the menu tabs at the top &#8211; there is a &#8220;Manage Anti-Captcha Services&#8221; menu option where it slides out the list of services. Although it doesn&#8217;t slide out all available services &#8211; only what&#8217;s default to be setup.  So you have to CLICK on the menu option &#8220;Anti-Captcha Services&#8221; &#8211; and then, and only then will you be able to select a different service.  I use Decaptcher, as it&#8217;s the cheapest I believe&#8230; Many other services are just white-labeling Decaptcher&#8217;s service anyhow and charging a premium for it.  Go with the source I always say&#8230;  The next part of the Register Accounts setup is the Link Pool. This is where you tell the program which urls to promote and what anchor text to use.  You can upload a CSV file in this section &#8211; and it&#8217;s in this format:</p>
<p>url;keyword1,keyword2,keyword3</p>
<p>So I would just create a text file with your text file editor, and write them out.  HOWEVER &#8211; the platforms you are exploiting, they use link shorteners (like Bit.ly) and you can argue that you won&#8217;t get the link juice that you would using normal anchor text links&#8230;  So even though I don&#8217;t use this in my posts, it will pull this information when creating the accounts and using those links in your profile so you should still create a link pool.</p>
<p>The next step is optional &#8211; using custom usernames.  If you don&#8217;t use a custom username, it will select a random set of characters (random letters) which looks really spammy and is not ideal for SEO purposes but it does so to make sure the accounts get created (using a username that&#8217;s already existent will make the program not create the account).  The other reason you should use random usernames is that it leaves less of a footprint (ie &#8211; the SE&#8217;s won&#8217;t see all the same username posting a thousand links in one day).  It&#8217;s up to you &#8211; I recommend using both.  Ideally, the program will get updated so that you can spin the username.  Until then, I&#8217;d try using both and see how your results compare.  I haven&#8217;t done enough testing to say which way is better.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it &#8211; just hit &#8220;Register Accounts Now&#8221; and it churns away, creating hundreds of accounts for you.  It&#8217;s that easy..  Like I said before, there&#8217;s no email verification or anything.  In less than an hour, you&#8217;ll have hundreds of accounts on several platforms.</p>
<p><strong>3. Submit Your Post:</strong> Here is where you create a spun post.  Just type in the post you want to write &#8211; remember there&#8217;s a limited # of characters, although I&#8217;m not sure what the limit is.  Just think of Twitter when writing your posts.  I recommend putting bare URLs as they turn into links anyways.  This will get you better link juice then using a link shortener.  Make sure you spin the URL so it&#8217;s not all posting to the same URL or site.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s really it&#8230;  You can choose your link pool, and choose the # of threads (I would put it to the max but you may have to lower the # of threads if you are using an old computer), but other than that &#8211; it will log into your accounts and submit your posts extremely fast.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s two other features that this program will do for you &#8211; join groups and add friends.  I have no idea how beneficial this is to your campaign. I have to do further testing..  But it doesn&#8217;t hurt &#8211; it makes the accounts seem more natural.  It may increase your accounts&#8217; lifespan but I don&#8217;t know that for sure.  I checked some of the accounts that I had created and they did in fact have friends and joined groups &#8211; but when looking at the groups, they mostly looked like it was one or two memebers, and the rest were Instant Social Anarchy accounts so I highly doubt you&#8217;re going to get any increased traffic from this.  In fact, I doubt you&#8217;ll see any traffic from these sites&#8230;</p>
<p>This tool is NOT going to get you to the top of Google.  This tool will NOT bring thousands of visitors to your site.  What this tool does is get you <strong>QUICK and EASY links</strong> &#8211; and it does so very well.  These sites are pretty spammy and low quality.  That does NOT mean they are worthless.  In fact, this program is very good at getting your sites indexed.  I have seen backlinks already showing in YSE from this and it&#8217;s only been a couple days so it does in fact work and it works quickly.  These sites are constantly updated because of the nature of them, so they are spidered frequently &#8211; thus your links show up in the index very quickly.  And the links you post will get indexed very quickly as well.  I suggest running a campaign from Senuke or SerpAssist or <a title="Xrumer" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">Xrumer</a> and then put those links through this program.  You&#8217;ll see significant increase in indexing time &#8211; plus you add link juice to those links, making them more powerful.</p>
<p>Another good thing about this program is that it&#8217;s a one time fee.  You pay once, and you don&#8217;t have to pay again.  I&#8217;m not going to tell you that this tool is better than all the rest &#8211; that you should only get this tool and nothing else.  In fact, quite the opposite.  If you DON&#8217;T have any other tools &#8211; then I wouldn&#8217;t recommend this.  As I am mainly using this to index URLS that get created from OTHER tools.  If you use Xrumer, <a title="Scrapebox" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/tag/scrapebox/">Scrapebox</a>, SerpAssist, or Senuke &#8211; then this tool is a fantastic supplemental tool in your arsenal.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/socialanarchy">&#8211; CLICK HERE TO GET INSTANT SOCIAL ANARCHY NOW &#8211;</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Howie&#8217;s Private Lab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use several programs from Howie &#8211; most are available from the Howie&#8217;s Private Lab package&#8230; I want to start out by saying a few things about Howie&#8230; I know many of you don&#8217;t like his tactics. I hate all the spam I get from his crap. I hate the fact that he said he [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I use several programs from Howie &#8211; most are available from the <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/howiesprivatelab">Howie&#8217;s Private Lab</a> package&#8230;</p>
<p>I want to start out by saying a few things about Howie&#8230;  I know many of you don&#8217;t like his tactics.  I hate all the spam I get from his crap.  I hate the fact that he said he was going to &#8220;retire&#8221; which ended up being a publicity stunt &#8211; trying to get people to one of his workshops because it was going to be his last&#8230;  He didn&#8217;t retire.. didn&#8217;t even slow down &#8211; if anything, he got more involved with his email spam campaigns <img src='http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> .  I hate the fact that he promoted this amazing tool that was supposed to be the next SeNuke killer &#8211; doing tasks in hours that would take a whole team of outsourcers to do in weeks&#8230;  This tool never worked..</p>
<p>That being said &#8211; there ARE some tools that he created (or had created) that DO work &#8211; and they do some very cool things..  Tools that are different than a lot of the crap that&#8217;s out there.  And this is what I&#8217;m going to talk about in this post&#8230;</p>
<p>There are two main programs of Howie&#8217;s that I recommend..</p>
<p>The first is <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/imleadership">IM Leadership</a>.  This is a program that includes some videos, some case studies, some blueprints, but that&#8217;s not all you get.  You get access to the IM Leadership forum.  This is run by a guy named Martin.  This guy, Martin, knows more about local <a title="marketing" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">marketing</a> than anyone I&#8217;ve ever met or read about.  You can ask him questions on the forum, and you&#8217;ll get your answer, sometimes the same day.  He knows his stuff and he shares it freely on the forum.  This forum is worth ten times what you pay for IM Leadership.  If you want to go into selling your SEO expertise to local businesses &#8211; then IM Leadership is all you need. I&#8217;ve spoken to SEVERAL people IN PERSON that have utilized the information that&#8217;s available to IM Leadership members and they now have a dozen clients that pay EVERY month &#8211; local businesses that pay $2K a month for you to promote their business online.  And let me tell you &#8211; it&#8217;s MUCH easier than doing affiliate marketing.  Local SEO is MUCH easier to dominate.  Take *ANY* keyword in *ANY* market, and add a local town, city, or even state, and you bring the competition down to levels where it would take you a week or two to dominate.  Compare that to month&#8217;s of SEO work to dominate a more general, national market that a billion other affiliates are promoting&#8230; There&#8217;s just no comparison. I could go on and on about this but I want to talk about some other cool programs of Howie&#8217;s that I use.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/howiesprivatelab">Howie&#8217;s Private Lab</a></p>
<p>In Howie&#8217;s Private Lab, there are dozens of programs/scripts (some you&#8217;ll never need &#8211; but some are very useful and very unique).  Note: these are all hosted online &#8211; they aren&#8217;t programs you run on your workstation.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s some of what you&#8217;ll get:</p>
<p><strong><a title="Automation Tools" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/category/marketing-tools/">Automation Tools</a></strong></p>
<p>The Article Tool 2.0<br />
Classified Ads<br />
Bookmark Generation 3.0<br />
Google Drill<br />
Directory Generation 3.0<br />
Howies Pinger<br />
DocPoster<br />
HTML2pdf<br />
Pad Creator<br />
Pad Submitter<br />
Image Poster<br />
Podcast Submitter</p>
<p><strong>Keyword Tools</strong></p>
<p>Keyword Addiction<br />
Keyword Secret<br />
Keyword Generation</p>
<p><strong>Content Tools</strong></p>
<p>Info Product Generation<br />
Data Feed Generation (BETA)<br />
Press Release Generation Format<br />
Feed Generation (BETA)<br />
Name Generator<br />
Press Release Generation Submitter</p>
<p><strong>Research Tools</strong></p>
<p>Google Black Hat Scraper<br />
GuruName Scraper<br />
ServiceGuru Scraper<br />
BONUS: Web 3.0 Visibility &#8211; Rank Checker</p>
<p>And then there are about 3 dozen more &#8220;quick tools&#8221; which are things like page rank checker, broken links checker, spider simulator, and much, much more.  Most of these rarely work though, so I ignore them.</p>
<p>Let me explain some of the tools that I personally use on a daily basis.</p>
<p><strong>Feedgeneration:</strong> Amazing <a title="blackhat" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">blackhat</a> tool that scrapes content from numerous sources, creates SEVERAL (hundreds) of RSS feeds.  What&#8217;s unique about these feeds is this &#8211; they are from several sources, all mashed together, and the item titles become links that you provide (your URLs that you want to promote or get indexed) &#8211; so it takes the item title and uses that as the anchor text..  Then it adds your keywords and links before AND after the content (you tell it how many links to add and using your keywords for anchor text)..  It doesn&#8217;t stop there &#8211; these are projects that are continually being added to&#8230; So your project could start out with just 5 feeds, but a couple months from now &#8211; that same project will have grown into 200 feeds, with thousands of items, all containing your links&#8230; This is amazing for getting your content indexed AND getting them <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a>..  AND you can use it as autoblog content &#8211; which will have your links in them..  The uses are endless.</p>
<p><strong>Blackhat Scraper:</strong> This is a tool that monitors all the major pharmaceutical and gambling keywords and then notes down all the sites that are ranking in the first page of Google.  It keeps a list of them and sorts it by how many times they show up in the first page.  You can find out which sites are ranking well at the present time in Google.  This is very useful information because you can then get links from these sites yourself.</p>
<p>People Generation (creates several profiles on some social sites, etc)</p>
<p><strong>DocPoster:</strong> Posts documents you create onto doc sharing sites &lt;&#8211; these aren&#8217;t the best for backlinks, the sites usually use flash, and the links may not be followed BUT they almost Always end up on the first page of google for any keyword I try&#8230;  This is great for traffic..</p>
<p><strong>Pad creator and submitter:</strong> This program creates a screensaver using images it scrapes from Google images using your keywords, and then creates a pad file with your links in them &#8211; and it then submits them to software sites. These sites put your links in the descriptions so it&#8217;s an easy way to get more backlinks..</p>
<p><strong>Press release submitter:</strong> This creates accounts automatically for you on all the free press release sites and then uploads your articles with your links in them, to the sites..</p>
<p><strong>Podcast submitter:</strong> This actually takes your articles and creates a podcast out of them &#8211; it then submits to podcast sites and you get more backlinks&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>And Datafeed Site Generator:</strong> This will create whole websites based off of product feeds you get from various sources (CJ, Amazon, Shareasale, wherever).  Great way to create huge, product filled sites.  Very cool.</p>
<p>As you can see, you get a ton of tools from this package.  You won&#8217;t use everything that&#8217;s available but the ones I specifically mention are very helpful in promoting your sites in many different ways.  It&#8217;s important to get links from varying sources.  These types of tools help you accomplish this.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/howiesprivatelab">CLICK HERE TO JOIN HOWIE&#8217;S PRIVATE LAB</a></p>
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		<title>LinxBoss &#8211; Progess Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple posts back, I mentioned a paid link network called LinxBoss. I started using this service a month ago and I figured I should report back with my results&#8230; I setup 5 sites &#8211; each getting 200 links each (this is the default and base subscription level &#8211; something I plan on upgrading in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A couple posts back, I mentioned a paid link network called <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linxboss">LinxBoss</a>.  I started using this service a month ago and I figured I should report back with my results&#8230;</p>
<p>I setup 5 sites &#8211; each getting 200 links each (this is the default and base subscription level &#8211; something I plan on upgrading in a month if the results stay consistent).  For each site &#8211; I followed the best practices which I talked about on my initial post <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linxboss-a-different-link-network/">here</a>.  It&#8217;s basically just not overdoing the # of keywords and the # of pages (keeping it to about 2 pages and 2 keywords each).  You don&#8217;t want to add too many pages or keywords because you are only getting 200 links per month and if you spread yourself too thin, you will not see the results you&#8217;d expect.</p>
<p>Let me give you some background history on the sites&#8230;</p>
<p>3 of the 5 sites are aged about 2 years, and are actually cloaked &#8211; meaning they are just landing pages for human traffic coming from search engines, but are really blogs with thousands of posts using garbage content from a <a title="blackhat" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">blackhat</a> plugin.  They were *NOT* ranking for my key terms, but they were ranking somewhat okay for long tail traffic.  Basically, they made only a few hundred dollars every couple months (each site)..  The landing pages were CPA offers&#8230; I did some heavy backlinking when I launched these sites but haven&#8217;t really touched them in over a year..</p>
<p>1 of the sites was a niche blog that I started about 9 months ago.  It was ranking just okay&#8230; not too much traffic.. I make about a hundred dollars a month from this one&#8230; It&#8217;s a clickbank product site.  I promoted this one pretty heavily for the first 3-5 months but have slowed down a lot in the last couple months&#8230;</p>
<p>The last site is a new site I started about a month ago &#8211; did some very minimal backlinking, a legit press release, and some video submissions&#8230; This one is the only non-wordpress site &#8211; it&#8217;s a very small, e-commerce (php) site selling real products.</p>
<p>I chose these 5 sites because it gives me a broad range for the testing&#8230; ie.  some somewhat aged domains, blackhat sites with junk content, quality site that&#8217;s under a year old and a brand new site that doesn&#8217;t have many <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> and is not a wordpress blog.  I wanted to find out what kind of sites Linxboss would work well with&#8230;</p>
<p>Here are the results (and so far, I think this is fantastic):</p>
<p>I am using the difference in rank position from the starting point (where I ranked when I added the site into Linxboss) and where it stands now.  There&#8217;s a few things about this that aren&#8217;t 100% because if I wasn&#8217;t ranking for the particular keyword at the starting point, and I am ranking for it now (it happened with about 8-10 keywords &#8211; total) &#8211; it assigned it a crazy value for the number difference&#8230; it assigned it a change of X where X would be the # of competing pages.. This makes sense because of I didn&#8217;t rank at all before, and now I rank at say position 5, and lets say the # of competing pages was 1000, that means the # of change is 995..  That number would throw off the averages&#8230; since the # of competing pages was sometimes in the hundred million range..  So obviously I couldn&#8217;t use that number &#8211; I assigned them a value of 500&#8230;  So keep that in mind when I show you the results below..</p>
<p>Site 1 (Quality blog &#8211; about 9 months old): For 14 keywords, the average POSITIVE change in position is <strong>73.6</strong>.  What that means is that if my keywords were in the 100th position, they are now in the 26th position.  So on average &#8211; each keyword improved 73.6 position slots  (These are averages&#8230;  so some of the keywords went from being the 20th position to the first position, and so on)</p>
<p>Site 2 (New non-wp blog selling real products): For 14 keywords, the average change in position is 164.33 (again, this is a positive change &#8211; meaning ranking improved this much on average for each keyword).  Note: SEVERAL keywords are now on the first page of Google (some in the first position) where as before, they were located on the 6th to 10th page.</p>
<p>Site 3 (Cloaked Splog): For 8 keywords &#8211; average improvement in rank position: 246.43</p>
<p>Site 4 (Cloaked Splog): For 12 keywords &#8211; average improvement in rank position 134.25</p>
<p>Site 5 (Cloaked Splog): No change &#8211; most not even ranking at all (and never were) for the chosen keywords&#8230;  Not sure what&#8217;s up with this blog. I get traffic, so it&#8217;s obviously ranking for long tail keywords but not at all for target keywords.  It&#8217;s not penalized or de-indexed either&#8230;  This one is a mystery&#8230;</p>
<p>So 4 out of 5 sites have improved DRAMATICALLY.  And for the most part &#8211; the only change is LinxBoss.  The Quality blog and the new e-commerce site did have some outsourced backlinking during this period &#8211; but it was minimal and I definitely attribute the changes due to LinxBoss.</p>
<p>This is just the FIRST month!</p>
<p>Word of warning&#8230;  Don&#8217;t bother checking the results for at least 3 weeks&#8230;  I checked every week and after 2 weeks &#8211; my rankings for the quality blog dropped severely..  I attribute this to Google analyzing &#8220;new data&#8221;.  This happens with new sites and any site where you make dramatic changes either to on-site SEO or off-site SEO (linking).  This happens all the time.  If you try Linxboss out (and I recommend that you do) &#8211; don&#8217;t worry about your rankings after a few weeks because they make get worse before they get better but if you stick around &#8211; I think you&#8217;ll like the results.  I will post another update next month.</p>
<p>What these results tell me is that this system can be used on NEW sites as well as OLD sites.  However, as I stated in my initial review &#8211; you should NOT rely solely on this type of system.  The links you are getting from systems like these are &#8230; well, they&#8217;re pretty easy to figure out (footprints).  So you want to mix them up with other links (bookmarks, blog comments, <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> links, social sites, no-follow links, press releases, forum signatures, whatever!).</p>
<p>Remember &#8211; Linxboss is a CLOSED membership &#8211; so when you click the link below, and fill out the form, you&#8217;ll be put on a waiting list.  When I joined, I also had to go on a waiting list, but I was contacted in a week saying I can join, so I don&#8217;t think the wait is that long. I definitely recommend you give LinxBoss a try.  It&#8217;s worth it.</p>
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		<title>Autoblog Blueprint 2.0 Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Autoblog Blueprint 2.0 is the most comprehensive guide to building out your autoblog empire, that I have ever seen. This is one product or guide that I can truly stand behind. I&#8217;ve bought/downloaded/shared thousands of methods, get rich quick schemes, blackhat methods, traffic generation techniques, ebooks, etc&#8230; and most aren&#8217;t worth the bytes that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/autoblogblueprint">Autoblog Blueprint 2.0</a> is the most comprehensive guide to building out your autoblog empire, that I have ever seen.  This is one product or guide that I can truly stand behind.  I&#8217;ve bought/downloaded/shared thousands of methods, get rich quick schemes, <a title="blackhat" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">blackhat</a> methods, traffic generation techniques, ebooks, etc&#8230;  and most aren&#8217;t worth the bytes that they take up on your HDD.  In fact, most of them cost you much more than what you paid for &#8211; they cost you WASTED TIME.  And that, my friends, is priceless&#8230;  You can never get it back.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/autoblogblueprint">Click Here To Get Autoblog Blueprint 2.0</a><br />
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<p>The Autoblog Blueprint 2.0 is not just a couple videos and a couple PDFs; it&#8217;s a COMPLETE system involving NUMEROUS steps, modules, plugins, themes, headers, and a forum (with a wealth of information) &#8211; all outlining every step it takes to create a money making autoblog empire.  Whether you want to build a blog network to promote your &#8220;true&#8221; money sites, or you want an autoblog empire that will become your money sites, or (if you do what I do), build a link network that is ALSO monetized in such a way, so that even if your money sites don&#8217;t produce what you intended, the link network behind it will not only be paying for itself, but will also be bringing in money that you can actually live on.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t expect a short list of steps, with a cookie cutter wordpress configuration that you can duplicate a hundred times and expect to retire.  As with any program that you expect to make money with &#8211; the more you put into it, the more you&#8217;ll get out of it.  You can probably find that anywhere and trust me &#8211; you won&#8217;t be doing yourself a favor by using it.  I don&#8217;t recommend anything that I don&#8217;t personally use and have benefited from &#8211; so please trust me when I say that this is worth the price of admission&#8230;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what you&#8217;ll get, with your lifetime membership of <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/autoblogblueprint">Autoblog Blueprint 2.0</a>:</p>
<p>You get an Autoblog optimized wordpress setup file &#8211; which is a copy of wordpress fully loaded with all the recommended plugins and settings.  This is just a base setup though &#8211; you still need to customize it to your needs&#8230;  You also get some headers and wp themes &#8211; but the rest of the program is spread out into 4 main modules and the forum which is very helpful.  Here&#8217;s a rundown of the rest of the blueprint:</p>
<p>When you <a title="login" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/login/">login</a> to the membership site &#8211; you&#8217;ll see a top navigation comprising of 7 main links:</p>
<p><strong>- Getting Started</strong><br />
This is the first place you should go to when logging in for the first time. It explains, in general terms, how the site is laid out, what to expect, where to get started (obviously), talks about the 30 day money-back guarantee, and a brief overview of the program/method.</p>
<p><strong>- Module 1</strong><br />
Planning your strategy (Niche Research, Domains, Hosting): This page goes through what you should be thinking about when setting up your autoblog empire.  I think this is the most important information you could ever read because once you get the basis for your strategy and planning down, the rest is just repetition.  The best advice I can give someone is to come up with a strategy and REPLICATE it.  Obviously it has to be a strategy that brings in some money &#8211; so developing it will not be easy and it won&#8217;t be overnight&#8230;  It will be ever changing and improving &#8211; but once you get the broad strokes down, you can always improve on the next site (which will hopefully bring in more money than the last, and so on).  The best part about having a winning strategy documented is that you can then hand it over (parts and pieces) to outsourcers (your team) and then THEY can replicate it &#8211; and multiply your income.  This module goes through three steps (Niche research, domains, and hosting).  Videos and text instructions are included&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- Module 2</strong><br />
Auto Blog SEO Overview: This module is about getting your blogs installed correctly, installing the right plugins, putting together a theme, and what essential pages you need on all your sites. Videos and text instructions are included&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- Module 3</strong><br />
Content and Monetization Overview: Module 3 is about how you get your site indexed and monetized.  It goes through how you plan on making money with your sites and what techniques to use. Videos and text instructions are included&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- Module 4</strong><br />
Backlinking: This module goes through how you will promote your site (getting <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> to your site) and how to use social media to maximize the traffic to your site. Videos and text instructions are included&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- Quick Start Guide</strong><br />
This page goes through each step briefly. It just gives you a broad strokes idea of what you need to do next.  Assuming you know most of the details, this is a good page to go to for a quick rundown&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>- Forum</strong><br />
Here is where you will probably find a lot of your questions answered.  Forums are a great way to communicate to other users, and especially the programmer/product owner.  If you have any issues with any of the steps outlined in the membership, you can ask them here &#8211; and what&#8217;s great about forums is that your question is probably already answered &#8211; so just do a search before posting it.</p>
<p>All in all &#8211; this is a lifetime membership and will be improved upon (I initially bought into this awhile ago &#8211; back when it was version 1, and because I was a customer then &#8211; I got upgraded for free to version 2.0.  I assume the same will happen once v3.0 comes out).  More videos, and instructions, and techniques will always be coming out and you can bet that it will be added to this membership site.</p>
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		<title>LinxBoss &#8211; A Different Link Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LinxBoss is yet another link network. There&#8217;s tons of linking programs out there, and they are all very similar, but some are more complex than others. Pay attention to what I&#8217;m about to say &#8211; ANY and ALL link networks will *NOT* get you results by themselves. They will rarely get you relative niche-related sites [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linxboss">LinxBoss</a> is yet another link network.  There&#8217;s tons of linking programs out there, and they are all very similar, but some are more complex than others.  Pay attention to what I&#8217;m about to say &#8211; ANY and ALL link networks will *NOT* get you results by themselves.  They will rarely get you relative niche-related sites linking to you.  You might get a page relative to your niche because the system let you write the post, but the rest of the sites&#8217; content will most likely be on several other topics (if not hundreds of other topics).  Plus there is most likely some sort of footprint, whether it be the framework of the sites they have in their network, the IP&#8217;s (though most good networks will have a variety of IP ranges &#8211; definitely double check this!), or a template they commonly use, or just the way they link to you (always in a sidebar, or at the bottom, or whatever).  I&#8217;m sure there are good networks that limit the footprint, but again &#8211; you should never SOLELY rely on the link networks to get the rankings you want/need.  You&#8217;re going to have to do some other linking efforts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linxboss" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="http://aff.linxboss.com/banners/rev1_250x250.gif" border="0" alt="LinxBoss Fully Automated SEO Linking" width="250" height="250" /></a>What link networks are good for is SUPPLEMENTING your efforts.  A good link network will get you consistent linking.  This is very important.  Typically, a self-promoted site will have this type of link velocity: it get lots of <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> one week (or one day), then none or very few the next, and then a bunch more one week, month, or day, then none or very few.  This goes on and on.  It&#8217;s just they way we work.  So there are spikes in the promotion of the site.  This is a fairly obvious footprint to Google saying that you are trying to manipulate their search results.  Natural link growth is slow and steady (and yeah, there are some spikes for things like viral content, etc, but for the most part &#8211; it&#8217;s slow and steady).  This is why link networks are (for the most part) good for supplementing your own efforts.  When you stop linking to your site for any given amount of time, your link network keeps on going.  It should consistently get you links every day or every week.</p>
<p>This is where <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/linxboss">LinxBoss</a> comes in.  This is a linking network &#8211; and it&#8217;s a little different from some of it&#8217;s competitors.  First of all &#8211; it&#8217;s not a blog network where you submit articles or content with your links embedded in the content or a resource box.  You just submit urls and keywords which the system uses for anchor text.  It then places the links on a categorized site (you choose the categories &#8211; it&#8217;s got plenty of choices) &#8211; and they have a HUGE network of sites (over 1700 sites and it&#8217;s growing every day).</p>
<p>So this makes the system extremely easy and painless.  There&#8217;s no content to worry about.  Of course, it&#8217;s a trade-off.  You don&#8217;t get the relative content surrounding your links.  BUT that&#8217;s okay because you aren&#8217;t going to be ONLY using this system for your link building efforts, right?  You&#8217;ll be submitting articles and blog posts anyways.  Like I stated before &#8211; this is to SUPPLEMENT your efforts, not replace them.</p>
<p>You start out by setting up a site.  You get 5 sites for the main subscription price (which you can upgrade if you need more sites to promote).  You can add as many pages as you want, and you can assign 4 keywords per page.  You get 1000 links every month.  What that means is you get 200 links per site, per month.  This is important because it splits that 200 between the # of pages you setup, AND the keywords you assign.  I&#8217;ll talk about &#8220;best practices&#8221; and what to avoid, later.  Once you setup the site (all you do is give it a name and domain url and choose whether you want to use Google USA or Google UK, etc &#8211; for ranking reports), you then just have to setup the linking page (page urls, keywords, and categories).</p>
<p>The linking setup is really simple.  Just add the url, a primary keyword to use, and a secondary keyword to use (you can have up to 3 secondaries, for a total of 4 keywords per page), and choose the category that you want the link to be associated with. You can setup as many pages per site as you want. That&#8217;s it! Oh and you can setup &#8220;other&#8221; keywords that you want it to track your rankings for, but not necessarily use as links.   Again &#8211; I&#8217;ll talk about what you should and shouldn&#8217;t do, later.</p>
<p>The next step is where LinxBoss truly separates itself from the rest of the herd.  It&#8217;s called L4L or &#8220;Links For Links&#8221;.  The system actually goes out and finds the backlinks that your site already has (it shows you the list) and starts to build MORE backlinks to your backlinks.  It &#8220;promotes the promoters&#8221;.  It builds off of what you have already done for your site.  This doesn&#8217;t cost anything extra either, and it doesn&#8217;t subtract from your 1000 links. It&#8217;s completely automatic &#8211; all you do is tell it the long tail keywords to use as anchor text (add at least 10 long tail keywords).  This is a VERY beneficial feature to utilize.  When setting up your pages and keywords, REMEMBER to click L4L to setup the &#8220;Links for Links&#8221;.</p>
<p>Another upcoming feature of L4L is &#8220;offsets&#8221; and &#8220;authority pages&#8221;.  I&#8217;m not positive what these will look like because they&#8217;re not released yet (as of the date of this post) but they should be released this week.  It&#8217;s supposed to look at the backlinks of your competitors and the ranking sites and will locate other links that you, too, can get for your site.  It won&#8217;t get the links FOR you, but it will tell you the sites to try to get the links from &#8211; and then you do it yourself, and then you enter the URLS where your backlinks are so that it will start pushing backlinks to those urls as well.  Again, this is included in your subscription.  It doesn&#8217;t cost anything extra.  The L4L system definitely makes this link network unique. I don&#8217;t know of any other that does this type of thing.</p>
<p><strong>Best Practices</strong></p>
<p>In your linking (pages/keywords) setup, you don&#8217;t want to add too many pages or too many keywords because the # of links will be spread too thin to see any results.  This is a BIG mistake for people trying out the network.  They think (and I did at first, too) that it&#8217;s better to have links going to numerous pages and using numerous keywords so that you limit the footprint.  DON&#8217;T DO IT!  Setup just a couple pages and a couple keywords per page to start.  That&#8217;s it!  Of course, you can change it at anytime &#8211; and you should once you get the rankings you want for those pages.  But you don&#8217;t want to spread yourself too thin.  Think about it &#8211; let&#8217;s say you setup 10 pages on a site, and add 4 keywords for every page.  The primary keyword gets 50% of the links, and the secondaries (you can have 3 secondaries) split up the remaining 50% of the links.  So if you get 200 links per month &#8211; each page is only getting 20 links per month. (That&#8217;s not enough for ANY campaign)  Each page&#8217;s primary keyword is only getting 10 links and the other keywords are splitting up the remaining 10 links per month.  That will NOT help much!!  Sure the domain as a whole still gets 200 links per month but you won&#8217;t see the specific rankings for your specific keywords &#8211; you&#8217;ll be getting &#8220;authority&#8221; because of the # of links, but that&#8217;s it.  You need to limit the keywords and the pages you add to the system.</p>
<p>Linxboss comes with a &#8220;traction&#8221; report.  It&#8217;s basically a ranking report.  It lists all the keywords that you added to the system, and checks Google and Yahoo and then reports what your ranking positions are for those keywords. It even keeps a history so you can your rankings improve or decline.  So far, I&#8217;ve seen it to be very accurate, although it doesn&#8217;t update very often (I think it&#8217;s every 4 days or something like that).</p>
<p>The training is very good &#8211; helpful videos are included that go through every step.  Like I said, this system is extremely easy to setup (I had all 5 sites setup within 15 minutes) and is run completely on auto-pilot. The only reason to log in again is to make changes (don&#8217;t make too many changes at first) or to check the progress of your ranking positions.  It will tell you exactly how much it&#8217;s helping so if you try it out for a few months, and followed the best practices (they have several videos on this) &#8211; and you don&#8217;t see any results (I can&#8217;t believe you wouldn&#8217;t though) &#8211; then cancel your subscription!  The links are permanent. You won&#8217;t lose them.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been using the system for only a month and I already see results.  I haven&#8217;t been using it for very long, so I can&#8217;t conclusively tell you whether it&#8217;s worth the $127.  I&#8217;ve setup 5 sites &#8211; some aged, some pretty new, some already have thousands of backlinks, some with under a hundred or two &#8211; so I&#8217;ll post my findings when I have enough data to provide.  I really think I&#8217;ll see some good results (I already am seeing significant improvement in the short amount of time I&#8217;ve been using it) but again &#8211; I don&#8217;t want to give a false impression&#8230; I don&#8217;t have conclusive data yet.</p>
<p>NOTE: LinxBoss is *CLOSED*.  A network this good has to set a max number of clients otherwise the network will get too diluted (too many out-bound links, a finite # of sites, etc).  That being said &#8211; there are openings when a member closes their account.  Click the link above and you will get put on a &#8220;waiting list&#8221;.  Don&#8217;t worry!  I get my account after just a week of waiting.</p>
<p>I highly advise you to get on the waiting list.  I don&#8217;t know how long they will even allow waiting list signups&#8230;  They&#8217;re offering a LOT for the price, especially since they added the &#8220;Links For Links&#8221; system.  I can&#8217;t imagine they will have this publically available for much longer.  Get in while you can.</p>
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		<title>Video Promotion &#8211; Getting Mass Amounts of Backlinks Using Article Video Robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 19:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that video&#8217;s get fairly good search engine rankings&#8230; I typically don&#8217;t create videos for traffic &#8211; I usually just try to get links from the descriptions and profiles of the video sites.. It&#8217;s also a good way to just get more positions in the top ten results (bumping out your competition). There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everyone knows that video&#8217;s get fairly good search engine rankings&#8230;  I typically don&#8217;t create videos for traffic &#8211; I usually just try to get links from the descriptions and profiles of the video sites..  It&#8217;s also a good way to just get more positions in the top ten results (bumping out your competition).  There&#8217;s a few methods I use &#8211; and I&#8217;ll uncover the first method below and I&#8217;ll post a few other methods later this week.  This is really easy stuff to do &#8211; and if you do it consistently &#8211; you&#8217;ll have no problems getting numerous videos ranking for whatever you want.</p>
<p><strong>To get 25% Discount off the regular price for <a target="_blank" href="http://www.articlevideorobot.com/buy.html">Article Video Robot</a> &#8211; USE COUPON CODE: LA554</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/articlevideorobot"><img class="alignleft" title="Article Video Robot" src="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/images/avr.png" alt="" width="240" height="200" /></a>For the first method &#8211; I&#8217;ll use Article Video Robot (to be called AVR from here on). AVR is a very quick, but powerful way to build video <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> for your sites. AVR creates videos from text (articles that you upload/post or ezinearticles.com articles) &#8211; the videos consist of background music, background images and a computerized voice narrating your articles.  There&#8217;s three ways I use AVR. First (and this is the quickest way) is the 1 click Ezine Article converter.  What this does is create a video based off of an ezinearticles.com article. When you choose this option, you are brought to a setup screen asking you a few questions &#8211; the URL of the ezinearticles.com article of course, and then any other options you want to configure (although none of them are required).  The options I usually configure are &#8220;Customize Video Background&#8221;, &#8220;Customize Article Narration Settings&#8221;, and &#8220;Customize Introduction Frame and Author&#8217;s Name&#8221;.  I make these changes for a few reasons &#8211; I change the video background usually to have no background or just a solid color (the backgrounds are pretty ugly). I change the article narration settings because it&#8217;s set to change the narrator voice for every paragraph.  I think that is annoying so I set it to only use one of the voices (&#8220;David&#8221;). Then I change the standard video introduction phrase &#8211; I make it so that it includes the keywords and title that I want.  I do this because Google is now starting to automatically create text (captions and transcripts) of videos that have speech in them so you want it to be as relevant as possible.</p>
<p>Once you set those options &#8211; it brings you to the last step &#8211; which is where you can preview and edit your video, which I never bother to do.  Trust me, these videos are not pretty, they are not the best looking/sounding videos.  They are there to give you video site backlinks, that&#8217;s all.  So I don&#8217;t really care that much about what they look like.  The other option in this step is to distribute your video.  This is important and is the main reason why you are doing this.  AVR not only creates the video, but it also syndicates it across 17+ video sites as well as publishes it to twitter, facebook and any other blog you own. You can, of course, download the video and distribute it yourself &#8211; but why bother when this can do it for you in seconds!</p>
<p>Once you select &#8220;Distribute Video&#8221; &#8211; it brings you to a page where you enter the title, description, tags, and category.  The title gets pre-entered as the title of the article &#8211; and assuming you used a good title with your keywords &#8211; it should be fine.  The description however, needs to be modified.  You MUST add your http://domain.com (obviously change that to the site you are promoting and remember to just add the URL, don&#8217;t use HTML) in the beginning of the description (make sure it&#8217;s the FIRST item on the description) &#8211; this is important because it&#8217;s where your backlinks come into play &#8211; plus it&#8217;s there so someone can check out your site if they are intrigued in doing so. Then for the rest of the description, make sure you add your keywords and any other relative information about your niche/video. The tags &#8211; obviously add your keywords, and choose your category (based off of YouTube categories).</p>
<p>Next, you get brought to the video site selection.  Here is where you can tell it your login information for all the video sites (you need to setup accounts first).  Once you enter and save this information, and future videos you produce, it will be all setup for you already.  So here &#8211; I will select all the sites and click Next.</p>
<p>The next page is the new &#8220;DynaSubmit&#8221; feature.  This is a great feature &#8211; it allows you to make other variations of your titles and descriptions and tags.  This is good so the search engines don&#8217;t see this as just an average video spamming run.  It makes the video submission look more independent of each other AND you can get more keyword penetration this way.  Change your titles and descriptions and you can target more keywords.  I usually will create at least a few variations here.  But you don&#8217;t have to. It&#8217;s not crucial.  Just a nice benefit.  It really depends on how much time I have and if I&#8217;m doing several at a time or not.  If you have the time &#8211; do it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s it &#8211; You click &#8220;Next&#8221; and your video gets distributed to numerous video sites and you get the backlinks.  You can then view your progress and once they start posting, you can see a report which has a list of all the video URLs &#8211; which is very useful for further promotion.  Remember &#8211; never just get a backlink and let it &#8220;sit&#8221;.  It may never get indexed!  All that work for nothing.  So I always &#8220;promote the promoters&#8221; (usually with fast <a title="automation tools" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/category/marketing-tools/">automation tools</a> like <a title="Scrapebox" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/tag/scrapebox/">Scrapebox</a> and <a title="Xrumer" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">Xrumer</a>).</p>
<p>LARCENY TIP: You don&#8217;t have to own the ezine article to make a video out of it!!  Remember &#8211; all you are doing is providing the URL.  AVR doesn&#8217;t check to see if you are the author or not &#8211; so just go to ezinearticles.com &#8211; select the category that matches your niche &#8211; pick out some articles that target your keywords and you now have numerous videos to start spamming away!  Have Phun!</p>
<p>Also, there&#8217;s a few other ways to utilize Article Video Robot &#8211; and I&#8217;ll post more methods later this week!</p>
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		<title>SerpAssist Is Launching Tonight!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SerpAssist &#8211; Detailed Review SerpAssist Full Version &#8211; Larceny gives 9 stars out of 10. To get your $20 discount off the monthly subscription price now &#8212; CLICK HERE &#8211; SerpAssist is not your ordinary link builder. It doesn&#8217;t just submit your article or blog post to a dozen sites. It actually allows you to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>SerpAssist &#8211; Detailed Review</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/serpassist">SerpAssist Full Version</a> &#8211; Larceny gives 9 stars out of 10.</p>
<p>To get your $20 discount off the monthly subscription price now &#8212; <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/serpassist">CLICK HERE</a> &#8211;</p>
<p>SerpAssist is not your ordinary link builder.  It doesn&#8217;t just submit your article or blog post to a dozen sites.  It actually allows you to VISUALLY diagram out your network, exactly how you want it &#8211; connecting your various hubs as complex as you need &#8211; to get the most link juice possible, and it does so completely automatically.  It performs the tasks needed to complete your linking network &#8211; and it does this on private servers so your CPU is not even being used.  This allows for absolutely NO slowdown on your wkstation, and you can go ahead and focus on things that matter.  No one, and I mean, no one likes doing link building.  I do it every day, and I hate it.  Especially when dealing with sub-par programs that are buggy and slow, and half the time they don&#8217;t even work properly.  I really have to say that SerpAssist is unique &#8211; although still having plenty of room to improve.  I&#8217;ll go through the steps you can take to build out a truly unique network that no other program could possibly build as elegantly as this program does (without any manual intervention on your part &#8211; besides initial setup).</p>
<p>When you first load up the program, you&#8217;ll notice that it logs you in, checks the program version, and updates the site list.  This is a small, but important detail because unlike other link building programs, SerpAssist relies on a central server that keeps an updated site definition file &#8211; so you don&#8217;t have to install new updates when various web 2.0 sites or bookmarking sites change (and they change often!).  When the central site list gets updated, so does your local version (when you reload it).</p>
<p>SerpAssist then brings you to a project list page, where you can either load a previously built project (which when highlighted, shows a preview of your link diagram, so you can see what that project looks like), or create a new project.  Creating a new project is extremely easy.</p>
<p>First, just give it a name and a main domain URL.  Then fill in the &#8220;Target Page&#8221; details (up to 3 I believe). It asks for a Target Page Title, URL, and keywords.  Then the next tab is the <a title="profile" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/profile/">profile</a> page. This is where you choose which sites to create accounts with, using yahoo email which it creates for you of course.  You can create several profiles &#8211; so you can group the accounts or use several accounts/profiles to build out a huge network.</p>
<p>So you create a new profile &#8211; it fills in random user details for you automatically, then you select your sites to create accounts on (you can highlight multiple/all sites at the same time).  Once you choose the sites to create, it adds them to the &#8220;Task List&#8221;.</p>
<p>The Task List is an interesting feature and something that sets this program apart from the rest.  This is where you submit your tasks to the central server, like creating accounts, confirming accounts, posting articles, pinging, RSS submitting, etc.  The best part about this is that you can schedule the tasks..  So you can have it create and confirm some accounts one day, have it post articles the next day, have it bookmark them the day after that, and so on.  It&#8217;s truly revolutionary the way this works, and you don&#8217;t even have to have the program running for it to work!  Like I said before &#8211; all the actual tasks that the program completes, they are all done on numerous central servers &#8211; NOT on your wkstation.  So there&#8217;s no need to leave the program running, hogging your CPU resources.  You can open up the task list at any time and check what has been queued, submitted for completion, and what has been completed (and when it was completed).</p>
<p>You can choose to have all the accounts created before you design your diagram, or you can just keep everything in the queue, go straight to the designing of your network, and THEN submit all the tasks. It uses a complex dependency algorithm, which allows the server to decide which tasks need to be completed before other tasks, in order to get all the linking to be logical (you can&#8217;t link to a site that&#8217;s not created yet because you don&#8217;t know the URL yet!).</p>
<p>So &#8211; you&#8217;ve created your profile, and sent all the account creation tasks to the task list. I usually submit account creation and confirmation tasks prior to building out the diagram, but it&#8217;s not required.  I also will create several profiles so I can create bigger, more complex networks (it will only create one account per site, per profile, so you may need more profiles created to allow for the same blog/website to be used more than once in the same link network).  The next step is to make sure you have your article(s) setup.  You need to have the content setup before you can assign &#8220;items&#8221; (or articles) to the various web 2.0 sites.  So you click on the &#8220;content library&#8221; tab and will need to click on &#8220;New&#8221; to create a new article.  It will ask for a name which is just like a project name, only to be seen by you, then a &#8220;subject&#8221;.  The Subject is spinable and is used in various places &#8211; it&#8217;s used as the article title for web 2.0 sites and for bookmark sites &#8211; and the description in bookmark sites is hard coded to have something like &#8220;article about [keyword]&#8221; (although this may change in future releases).  The next thing is the keywords and tags. These are used in the obvious places, but also in the profile anchor text so choose wisely.</p>
<p>In the actual article content &#8211; you paste in your spun content or you can spin it there (there&#8217;s a basic thesaurus available but I always do my spinning in TheBestSpinner and just copy/paste).  One thing that&#8217;s special about this is the links.  You need to highlight your anchor text in your article and press &#8220;Add Link&#8221; button.  This puts a LINK# tag around them.  It will add a LINK1 tag for your first link, and a LINK2 tag for your second link, and so on.  The latest version of SerpAssist will now spin your article locally when you choose an article to be associated to a blog on your diagram &#8211; so that way, if you have links in spun variations &#8211; it will actually know to only allow you to use the links that are output in that version of the spun article. So if you have a spun sentence and it has a link with anchor text 1 in one variation, and you have another variation with anchor text 2 &#8211; when you build out your network diagram and choose what links to use to target whatever site &#8211; it will actually show you the anchor 1 text if that&#8217;s what was randomly chosen or anchor 2 text if that was the version that was chosen.  Note: You might want to manually edit the link tags to show the same link # if it&#8217;s just another spun variation of the same link. During network diagram design &#8211; you will be selecting your article (item) and what links point to where.  SerpAssist is smart enough to only allow you to link to a site if that link shows up in that version of the spun article, so if you screw up with the spinning, its not a big deal &#8211; just edit your article appropriately.  Or you can choose to not spin your links but I recommend it because it will add more variation to your articles.</p>
<p>Okay &#8211; So you&#8217;ve created the accounts, you&#8217;ve created the articles &#8211; now you need to design the network.  This is where it gets interesting.  Because it&#8217;s visual &#8211; you can come up with the most intricate link network Google has ever seen <img src='http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  When building your diagram out &#8211; you drag a &#8220;node&#8221; to the blank page (nodes available right now are target pages, blog pages, feeder pages which are the same thing as blog pages &#8211; it&#8217;s just another label you can use, profile links, and bookmarks)  and it then will ask you what you want it to be, ie. what site to use, using what account, and depending on the type of node, what article to use, what keyword to use as anchor text if its a profile link, etc.  Then you can click and hold the node, and drag the cursor towards another node, and it will draw an arrow signifying that you are linking it to the other node.  Then a pop-up asks you what link to use (remember you setup LINK1&#8242;s and LINK2&#8242;s and so on, in the article content).  It&#8217;s intelligent to know which anchor text or links are being output from the spun content so you will never be choosing a link that won&#8217;t be there (very important!). Another note &#8211; when you drag a blog node and set it up with the site details &#8211; you can also right click on it and select &#8220;blog properties&#8221; &#8211; and it will pop up showing the details of the blog but it also allows you to select the RSS sites you want it to submit to.  Right now, if you don&#8217;t do that, no rss submissions will get added to the task list so remember to do this.  Again, automatic RSS tasks are in the works (in a future release).</p>
<p>About bookmarks &#8211; each bookmark node can represent more than one bookmark site.  So you only need to drag one per target (that you want bookmarked).  For instance, if you want your livejournal site bookmarked, you drag a bookmark node out &#8211; and then click and hold to draw the arrow to target the site you want bookmarked.  Then you right click it and you can choose the bookmark sites and accounts you want to use to bookmark that target.  So if you want 4 bookmarks for a blog on your diagram, you don&#8217;t need to drag 4 bookmark nodes out, just one, and select 4 accounts.  You can even select multiple accounts of the same bookmark site &#8211; to make it look like multiple people are bookmarking your sites (this is completely natural and normal if you have quality content).  Another feature is Auto Bookmarking.  How this works is when you are building your network &#8211; and adding web 2.0 nodes &#8211; you can drag a bookmarking node and connect it to the web 2.0 node and as long as that blog node has not been created yet &#8211; it will automatically bookmark that web 2.0 site (with all the bookmark accounts you have setup) once it gets posted with no intervention on your part whatsoever.  If the web 2.0 site is already posted, you can of course, still bookmark it, but you have to specify which accounts to use, and submit the tasks just like all the other tasks.</p>
<p>ALSO!!  The most important feature of this program is the SCHEDULER.  Think about it &#8211; you could build a network 5 layers deep &#8211; and have it add a new layer EVERY DAY.  Even more so &#8211; have it add bookmarks and profile links day after day, or week after week. THIS IS VERY POWERFUL.  This is the most desired feature of any SEO link builder.  And I have to say &#8211; this program does it very well.  When you create your network &#8211; you&#8217;ll be dragging various &#8220;nodes&#8221; onto the page and linking them up, and choosing the article to use (I suggest using at least one article per &#8220;layer&#8221; &#8211; spun), and choosing the bookmark nodes to link to them (there will be an option in the future, to toggle automatic bookmarking and profile linking to all nodes &#8211; or you can still do it manually if you want to add more to one area of the network) &#8211; every time you add a node and link it to another node or target page, you are creating a &#8220;task&#8221;.  Then you can open your task list and submit the task right away or you can choose a specific date to have it completed (I will submit the first layer of sites immediately but anything after that gets &#8220;scheduled&#8221;).  Think about it &#8211; create your blogs &#8211; have them link to a target page, then the next day you can have them bookmarked, then the third day you can have profile links created and linked (which by the way &#8211; the profile sites&#8217; accounts and any other sites&#8217; accounts can be created and confirmed one day and you can add links to them in the FUTURE. Because the account creation is one task, the confirmation of the account is another task, and the adding of links is another task &#8211; and you can schedule every aspect of this. This is PERFECT for naturally letting your profile &#8220;sit&#8221; before spamming it with your links.   One tip about the scheduling&#8230;  When you are looking at your network diagram &#8211; it&#8217;s easy to tell which sites you would want scheduled, etc..  But when you go to schedule the tasks &#8211; it&#8217;s not so easy to tell.  Because it&#8217;s just a list of accounts and site names&#8230;  But you can double click on an item to see the relative information, like email profile, and account name, etc&#8230;</p>
<p>The only thing left for you to do is to submit the tasks for completion.  Assuming there aren&#8217;t any problems with account creation and confirmation (it&#8217;s been going pretty smooth for me with a few exceptions) &#8211; the tasks get completed within minutes (sometimes faster).  You then get any finalized URLS in the URL manager.  What I&#8217;ll do is take those urls and create a new project and add them as target pages to build out even bigger networks..  There is no limit to what you can do.  I&#8217;ve been beta testing this since the beginning and I have to say &#8211; it&#8217;s been getting better every day and it will continue to do so.  Another great aspect about having the tasks completed at offsite servers is that the developer can monitor any issues&#8230; So if accounts aren&#8217;t getting created or a web 2.0 site changes their registration page &#8211; he sees that there are problems and fixes them to make sure everything is running smoothly.  This way, the developer sees and knows about the problems before anyone even submits a bug report or support request.  Just the other day, Propeller changed something about their registration, so instead of the tasks failing, the developer saw that they weren&#8217;t working, and even before he fixed the problem, he made sure the accounts were created.  Now that is good support!!</p>
<p>So you have your accounts created and confirmed, your articles setup, spun and linked, and your diagram drawn out (you&#8217;ll love that part).  Once a task gets completed, the associated URL gets added to the URL manager.  There you can double check to make sure all your links are how they should be.  Just FYI &#8211; I haven&#8217;t had any problems with this. It&#8217;s fantastic &#8211; After completing a very complex link network &#8211; I checked all the articles/blogs and they are linked to each site exactly how I wanted them to be.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no other program that does this.  PERIOD.</p>
<p>You can also set the general options in the program to auto ping everything.  You must either add your own ping server URLs (you can find ping lists everywhere &#8211; just google it) or you can just turn on the &#8220;pingler&#8221; option which is a ping aggregator &#8211; but remember that pingler will use a lot of decaptcher credits and you only get 200 for free per month.  You can always add your own decaptcher account though &#8211; and I recommend you do so (because you will go through the free credits very quickly).</p>
<p>Another good feature is the export feature.  You can export your diagram and/or complete project &#8211; so you could give them to others to duplicate or grow upon (think: outsourcers).</p>
<p>There is one limitation but it has a sort of a plus side to it.  As it stands right now &#8211; you can only create 2 sets of accounts (of all the sites) PER project and only 8 total per day.  BUT you can still SCHEDULE other account creation tasks for future days. This is subject to change depending on user needs, etc. I was initially bummed out from this but then I realized one important thing&#8230;  It forces you to GROW your network naturally.  You can still build out your entire network all at once &#8211; it&#8217;s just that the accounts for the outer rims of your network might not be created right away and they won&#8217;t get posted right away&#8230;  but that&#8217;s a good thing &#8211; you don&#8217;t want to build too many links in a day anyways..  You can get around this limitation by using your own proxies (the limitation is because there are only so many proxies available &#8211; which by the way are always used and are included in the subscription cost.  Plus the dev is always getting new proxies to avoid account banning).</p>
<p>The only other downside is that there is only so many targets available right now, but that will definitely grow.  Think about it &#8211; Senuke only had like 10 when it was in beta &#8211; now there&#8217;s hundreds.  This will be similar.  And when the site list gets updated &#8211; you don&#8217;t even have to update the program.  The site list gets updated from the central server.  You just might have to reload your program (which by the way, there&#8217;s no reason to even keep the program running since all the tasks are performed on a central server).</p>
<p>Also &#8211; there are MANY more exciting features to come.  Like a button where it will literally build you out a random link network so all you have to do is upload your article content and that&#8217;s it!  And a button to auto-set the scheduling to have all the tasks be spread out randomly over a week or whatever you set&#8230; (as it is right now &#8211; you need to select multiple tasks and choose a date or select one task and choose a date).</p>
<p>One more note &#8211; When submitting tasks (especially posting tasks) &#8211; remember to check your task list every so often &#8211; because right now, the RSS feed tasks and the pinging aren&#8217;t completely automatic.  The pinging tasks do get created automatically but you still have to submit the tasks &#8211; but the RSS feeds &#8211; you need to right click on your blog node and select the RSS feeds that you want it to submit to.  Once the blog has been posted &#8211; your RSS feed submission tasks will be pending and you have to load the task list to submit them.  I&#8217;m guessing that this will all be more automated in the future &#8211; since there&#8217;s no real reason why you wouldn&#8217;t want the RSS feeds to be submitted.  Keep something in mind though (about RSS submissions) &#8211; RSS aggregators do NOT like feeds with one item in them.  Some will accept them, some won&#8217;t.  It&#8217;s better to have multiple items though &#8211; that&#8217;s what a feed is &#8211; a list of multiple posts&#8230;  So what I do, in addition to the normal submissions, is I take the RSS feeds (the RSS feed URLs do get added to the URL manager) and mash them together to create one big feed &#8211; and then submit them at the same time with RSS Submit (another program).  Perhaps something like this will get added to SerpAssist.  The best part about this program is that the developer listens to his users and testers &#8211; so if there&#8217;s a feature missing or something isn&#8217;t working right &#8211; it will get added/fixed.  I am thinking of some amazing features and I speak to the developer all the time (through beta testing, etc) and he also has some amazing ideas so I really think you need to jump on this program right away.  With all the additions that are going to be added to this program, there&#8217;s no way he will be able to keep the price so low.  Plus you get a $20 discount if you use my link below.  It&#8217;s selling retail at $97 a month &#8211; but for my subscribers and people reading this review &#8211; it&#8217;s only $77.  I guarantee this price won&#8217;t last though, so I definitely recommend you act soon.</p>
<p>I highly recommend this program and it&#8217;s just in its infancy.  I gave it 9 stars out of 10 &#8211; and the only reason it&#8217;s not 10 stars is because of the site list.  There needs to be more targets &#8211; but rest assured, the developer is actively working on this and will add more sites as soon as possible.  I am confident that this program will become a 10 star Larceny rating real soon!  <img src='http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>If you ever have trusted my opinion &#8211; take heed to this one, because I truly think this program is revolutionary.</p>
<p>To get your $20 discount &#8211; <a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/serpassist">CLICK HERE NOW</a>.  The regular price is $97 but if you click that link, you&#8217;ll get it for $77.  Go ahead and get the discount while you still can.</p>
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		<title>Synnd &#8211; Major Improvements Coming</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synnd is a program from Social Media Science. It&#8217;s a huge network of users, which all the users have access to each others bookmarking, twitter, and syndication accounts. What does this mean? It allows you to setup a campaign, where you can have the program bookmark your sites, or tweet your sites, or get voted [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Synnd</a> is a program from Social Media Science.  It&#8217;s a huge network of users, which all the users have access to each others bookmarking, twitter, and syndication accounts.  What does this mean?  It allows you to setup a campaign, where you can have the program bookmark your sites, or tweet your sites, or get voted and comments to your digg, Mixx, and Reddit submissions.  If you are promoting the right type of content, it can be extremely helpful.</p>
<p>To be honest &#8211; I thought it was amazing at first. The theory is good, and it executes it extremely well.  The only problem was the lack of services it allowed.  Bookmarking?  That can only take you so far.  Sure, it increased my traffic a LOT at first &#8211; but that slowly died, due to getting links from the same sites..  It was limited to like 10 bookmarking sites, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, and Twitter (although now I think they increased the bookmarking sites to 15 or 20).  That&#8217;s great to get the &#8220;buzz&#8221; out, but it has diminishing returns in the long run.  And it&#8217;s a little expensive (although not as bad as some).</p>
<p>I actually let my account go recently.  I just wasn&#8217;t seeing the returns I wanted.  And it&#8217;s probably my fault.  See, I only have so much time, and I was just trying to limit everything I was involved with and this didn&#8217;t make the cut.  I have since renewed my account due to these upcoming changes, and I didn&#8217;t want to get stuck with a higher price (the price will most definitely go up with these changes come about).</p>
<p>This is about to change&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Check Out Synnd Now! There&#8217;s a Free Trial</a></p>
<p>There&#8217;s a few updates coming out in a month or two that will increase the # of services that this program can perform for you.  HUGE improvements&#8230;  Here&#8217;s what they have in store (from an email I received from them):</p>
<p><strong>Article Distribution Module (tentative June 15th release)</strong></p>
<p>This is article distribution to the top 10 article networks that have an impact on SEO. You&#8217;ll be able to assign spinning tags to your articles so that unique versions of the article are submitted to each network. This is a great tool to help build incoming link love to deep pages of your website or blog for specific anchor text key terms.</p>
<p><strong> RSS Aggregator Module (tentative June 1st release)</strong></p>
<p>The Synnd RSS Aggregator will submit your latest content to the top RSS aggregators on the web. This will allow your new content to get indexed very quickly and also boosts your search engine juice.</p>
<p><strong>Pinger Module Module (tentative June 1st release)</strong></p>
<p>The Synnd Pinger Module will ping your new content to the top update services on the web that the search engines crawl on a regular basis. This will help get your content indexed faster and will allow the search engines to crawl even the deepest content on your website or blog.</p>
<p><strong>Video Distribution (tentative June 15th release)</strong></p>
<p>With the Synnd Video Distribution module you&#8217;ll be able to have your video automatically distributed to the top 30 video networks. Submit 1 video to Synnd and Synnd will then upload your video to the 30 networks automatically while you do other things.</p>
<p><strong>Video Viewing, rating and commenting (tentative August 1st release)</strong></p>
<p>Already have a video distributed? &#8230; Well how about now increasing the visibility of your videos by getting views, ratings and comments on your video. For example&#8230; In YouTube it is proven that the more views, ratings and comments a video gets, the higher it ranks in YouTube&#8230; The higher it ranks in YouTube, the higher the video ranks in the Google&#8230; Simple.</p>
<p>That feature is really cool.  Getting youtube views is not as easy as it once was, and this will do it for you.</p>
<p><strong>Content Spinning (tentative July 15th release)</strong></p>
<p>We will be introducing a system which will allow you to automatically create spun variations on your Synnd bookmarking and article distribution campaigns. With the click of a button your title, description and tags will be spun FOR YOU. No more hand coding tags or using outside services to create the spinning syntax for your bookmarking and article distribution campaigns.</p>
<p>&#8211; There&#8217;s also a blog commenting module that will have people comment on your blog posts. They are selling &#8220;professional writers&#8217; comments&#8221; at $2 a pop.  Personally &#8211; I think that is ridiculous and would never pay for such a lame service.  BUT you don&#8217;t have to use that feature.  I won&#8217;t.  </p>
<p>These updates are huge.  I think this is going to be a fantastic program and will greatly increase your rankings if used properly.</p>
<p>When I have played with the features enough &#8211; I&#8217;ll write a report on how you can use this service to the best of it&#8217;s ability.  There&#8217;s so many things you can do with it (soon).  </p>
<p>NOTE: The current price is $67 a month.  Once those other features are released, I would almost guarantee this price will be increased so get in NOW while you can at such a low price.  This is not some tactic &#8230;  it&#8217;s not my product..  Before these updates were scheduled, I probably wouldn&#8217;t tell you to buy this.  But I truly, honestly believe that the price WILL go up when those features are released &#8211; I just can&#8217;t imagine them not increasing it. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Click Here Now To Get These Amazing Updates When They Come Out!</a></p>
<p>When you first sign up, and get the program to install on your wkstation (it runs in the background and you&#8217;ll never know it&#8217;s running &#8211; all it does is tunnel traffic through your IP so that the services think it&#8217;s being run from your wkstation, but it&#8217;s not &#8211; it&#8217;s ran on Synnd servers) and you&#8217;ll get several tutorials.  **READ THE TUTORIALS AND GUIDES**  They are very helpful and you will not be using this program to it&#8217;s full potential if you don&#8217;t.  Trust me &#8211; I&#8217;m always the one that messes with the program before ever looking at a manual, but I benefitted greatly once I did read them and so will you.</p>
<p>Also &#8211; the program is based on credits.  You get X many a month &#8211; depending on the option you chose (you can pay more monthly to get more credits or you can pay for a lifetime subscription, which, if you can afford it, I highly recommend it!  And it won&#8217;t give them all to you at once.  It gives you so many a day.  What you can do to get started quickly, is to assign jobs to your account and it will give you more credits.  The more jobs you assign, the more credits you can use to create campaigns.  You&#8217;ll have to do this at first, but only in the beginning.  Once you get going, you&#8217;ll start getting auto-credits and you&#8217;ll have enough to run your campaigns.</p>
<p>Try it out &#8211; It&#8217;s really going to be great, and I highly recommend it.  You get a free trial (I think it&#8217;s a week or something) &#8211; so if you don&#8217;t like it, just cancel your subscription.  It&#8217;s easy.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/synnd">Click Here Now To Try Out Synnd</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>SerpAssist Beta &#8211; Full Version Coming Soon!</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/serpassist-beta-full-version-coming-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some interesting programs coming out&#8230; Serpassist Full Version &#8211; SerpAssist first released a program that allowed you to develop diagrams for your link building networks. Helpful I guess, but this was just a test I think. Because they soon released a beta (not to the public but I was lucky enough to be one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There&#8217;s some interesting programs coming out&#8230;</p>
<p>Serpassist Full Version &#8211; </p>
<p>SerpAssist first released a program that allowed you to develop diagrams for your link building networks.  Helpful I guess, but this was just a test I think.  Because they soon released a beta (not to the public but I was lucky enough to be one of the ones testing this interesting software) &#8211; that allowed you to not only diagram your network, but it actually created the network as well.  It allows you to enter your spun article, setup your diagram, and it will actually create the accounts and post the content with your links, and it links the network together exactly how you create your network diagram.  It&#8217;s just starting out so I&#8217;ll release more details when it&#8217;s getting closer to release date.  But so far, so good.  Very interesting stuff.  You can actually design a network FIRST, and then it goes and builds it out FOR you.  Very cool &#8211; but so far, a little buggy but it gets better daily. I&#8217;ll keep you posted.</p>
<p>When it gets released &#8211; I&#8217;ll come up with a full review so you can decide for yourself if this is worth getting.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>WPTweetBomb</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wptweetbomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WPTweetBomb&#8230; No &#8211; it&#8217;s not just another Twitter tool. It&#8217;s an autoblog plugin for WordPress. In fact, you don&#8217;t even have to use the twitter features and it&#8217;s still an amazing autoblogging tool. Here&#8217;s the basics (I&#8217;ll go into more detail below): Buy WPTweetBomb Now What WPTweetBomb does: It pulls content from various sources (Google [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>WPTweetBomb&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>No &#8211; it&#8217;s not just another Twitter tool.  It&#8217;s an autoblog plugin for WordPress.  In fact, you don&#8217;t even have to use the twitter features and it&#8217;s still an amazing autoblogging tool.  Here&#8217;s the basics (I&#8217;ll go into more detail below):</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-tweetbomb">Buy WPTweetBomb Now</a></p>
<h2>What WPTweetBomb does:</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>It pulls content from various sources</strong> (Google News, Google Blog Search, Yahoo News, Yahoo Answers, Ezine Articles, Digg, and Custom RSS Feeds).</li>
<li><strong>Trends: </strong>You can have it pull content based on some general trendy keywords (either from Twitter Trends, or Google Trends, or both), or you can create custom keyword lists.  If you want to get more targeted blog content &#8211; I definitely recommend using the custom keywords ONLY. It seems to work better for more general keywords, but you&#8217;ll have to test this (WPTweetBomb provides great testing tools to see what content the keywords will bring up).  But if you are creating blogs for a private network and just need some content going, the Twitter/Google Trends will work great &#8211; plus bring in some great traffic.</li>
<li><strong>Twitter functionality</strong> (obviously it has some amazing twitter features, hence the name): It will tweet all your posts.  But this is what separates this from an ordinary post-to-twitter plugin: It posts to NUMEROUS accounts &#8211; and also will FOLLOW other twitter accounts every time it posts. You can set how many accounts to post to (per post) and how many people it will follow (per post).  Its recommended to have at LEAST the same # of accounts imported, as the # of posts you plan to post on a daily basis.  In other words &#8211; if you have this post 50 times a day, you need at LEAST 50 twitter accounts imported.  The # of posts per day is set by your cron job&#8217;s schedule (it tells you how often to have the cron job run for X amount of posts/daily).  Of course &#8211; since you are posting to multiple twitter accounts every single day &#8211; you&#8217;ll want to have proxies setup (this requirement is dependent on how hard you plan to hit twitter &#8211; and again, WPTweetbomb gives you a handy &#8220;safety calculator&#8221; to test this).  I recommend just buying a hundred twitter accounts (you can find sources to buy them from the wptweetbomb forum you&#8217;ll get access to)</li>
<li><strong>Auto Indexer:</strong> On the top of the setup page &#8211; you&#8217;ll see your site&#8217;s statistics, which are # of pages/posts indexed out of total # of pages/posts, your page rank, # of posts done daily/weekly/total, and your <a title="backlinks" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">backlinks</a> #&#8217;s.  What the auto indexer does, is for all those posts that are not yet indexed, it will tweet them <strong>more</strong>, on a random basis.  A Lot more&#8230;  The idea is that twitter will help get your posts indexed.  This plugin definitely does a good job of getting sites&#8217; indexed so it appears this theory is correct, although I haven&#8217;t done extensive testing yet.</li>
<li><strong>Content Blocks:</strong> You can create content blocks &#8211; which is just telling the plugin what content to pull, with what keywords, and to which categories. You can have the posts include images, remove or keep in links/emails, videos, tags, credit the source, and even de-duping the content. What&#8217;s cool about the content block feature is that there&#8217;s an advanced content block creator syntax so you can create mass amounts of categories and content blocks all at once, by following a simple syntax:
<p>Parent Category Name # keyword1, keyword2, keyword3<br />
&#8211; Sub Category Name # keyword4, keyword5, keyword6<br />
&#8211; Sub Category Name2 # keyword7, keyword8, keyword9</p>
<p>And so on&#8230; </p>
<p>It then creates all the content blocks, using those categories (that it will create for you), and those keywords you assign. It allows you to create an extremely organized blog (more so than I do manually, that&#8217;s for sure!)</li>
<li><strong>Ad Blocks:</strong> You can create ad blocks using Amazon, Clickbank, Adsense, Commission Junction, and any other custom HTML ads &#8211; and you can create complex rule systems.  For example, you can have clickbank ads showing for on the sidebar for this category, but html ads on the post for another category, etc.  It can get as complex as you want it &#8211; so you can specify the best ads to target certain posts&#8230;</li>
<li><strong>Bonus Tools</strong> include an instant links tool &#8211; where it will take your domain and post it on all the stats sites.  Usually will help to get your site indexed.  Again &#8211; I haven&#8217;t done too much testing on this, but from my experience, these links don&#8217;t help that much.  As usual, test for yourself.  Another great bonus is the Twitter account checker.  When you purchase bulk twitter accounts &#8211; it&#8217;s incredibly boring to check all the accounts to make sure they are valid, and not deleted.  With the account checker &#8211; you can check them all in a few seconds.  It even tells you how many people are following/followed and how many tweets there are in the account.  Very handy.</li>
</ul>
<p>WPTweetBomb is a fantastic plugin.  It&#8217;s incredibly easy to use, and there are videos and a forum to help you if you need it.  It&#8217;s pretty easy to get traffic depending on the keywords you are targeting, but just like any other site &#8211; the plugin isn&#8217;t going to do everything. You still need to promote the site to gain traction.  The promotion strategy will be the same as any other site you do.  I&#8217;ll post some of my general strategies I use for every site I create, in an upcoming post.</p>
<p>I hope you found this review helpful &#8211; Click on the button below to check it out!</p>
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		<title>SENuke &#8211; Dominate Your Niche!</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/senuke-dominate-your-niche/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SENuke is the most powerful internet marketing software I&#8217;ve come across &#8211; EVER! There really is nothing that compares to it. There&#8217;s a few other software tools that do something similar (Like Brute Force SEO Software), but nothing like SENuke. It&#8217;s really an all-in-one package and that really is a powerful statement. No other software [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.senuke.com/membership/?special-offer=18007"><img style="border: 1px solid black;" src="http://www.senuke.com/Banners/senuke4684.gif" border="1" alt="SEnuke Complete Marketing Software" width="421" height="54" /></a></p>
<h3 style=\"color: #000;\">SENuke is the most powerful internet marketing software I&#8217;ve come across &#8211; EVER!</h3>
<p>There really is nothing that compares to it.  There&#8217;s a few other software tools that do something similar (Like Brute Force SEO Software), but nothing like SENuke.  It&#8217;s really an all-in-one package and that really is a powerful statement.  No other software does EVERYTHING you need to dominate your niche.</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.senuke.com/membership/?special-offer=18007"><img src="http://www.senuke.com/Banners/senuke2404.gif" border="1" alt="SEnuke Complete Marketing Software" align="right" /></a>This software will help you find profitable niches, deterimine your competition, find high paying affiliate products and most importantly SEnuke will let you dominate up to three pages of Google listings for your niche.</p>
<h3 style=\"color: #000;\">The best part?  You can try it absolutely <em>FREE!</em></h3>
<p>That&#8217;s right, free.  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.senuke.com/membership/?special-offer=18007">Click here for your free trial!</a></p>
<p>There&#8217;s no reason Not to try it.  It allows you to post on hundreds of web 2.0 sites, article sites, bookmarking sites, rss aggregators &#8211; You name it!  It even creates the accounts for you!  Literally push button <a title="marketing" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com">marketing</a>.  There&#8217;s no other software that makes it this easy.  Like I said before, there&#8217;s some other software products SIMILAR to this, but they come nowhere NEAR the capabilities of SENuke.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t take my word for it, go ahead and see for yourself.  Check out the success forum (a real live forum for members to share their stories) &#8211; Go here to see for yourself: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.senuke.com/show_link.php?id=18007&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.senuke.com%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3Ff%3D4%26t%3D1752">http://www.senuke.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&amp;t=1752</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bookmarking Demon</title>
		<link>http://www.marketingplaythings.com/bookmarking-demon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larceny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social Bookmarking is key to having a successful website. It&#8217;s one of the best ways to get your sites indexed quickly &#8211; and also drive traffic to your site. The only problem is the time it takes to do it! You have to create dozens of accounts &#8211; log onto all these sites &#8211; add [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a style="padding-right: 30px" href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/recommends/bookmark"><img class="size-full wp-image-50 alignleft" title="bookmarkdemon" src="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/bookmarkdemon.png" alt="bookmarkdemon" width="109" height="140" /></a><br />
<br />Social Bookmarking is key to having a successful website.  It&#8217;s one of the best ways to get your sites indexed quickly &#8211; and also drive traffic to your site.  The only problem is the time it takes to do it!  You have to create dozens of accounts &#8211; log onto all these sites &#8211; add your links to all your pages, and all your sites &#8211; and do this every time you add another page, or create another site.  This is a lot of work!</p>
<p>What if I told you that this could all be done with a click of your mouse?  Don&#8217;t believe me?  </p>
<p>Then You have to try this software &#8211; <strong><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/recommends/bookmark">Bookmarking Demon</a></strong>.  I use it all the time.  It&#8217;s great!  It creates the account for you &#8211; lets you choose random accounts so it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s all  coming from the same account.  It bookmarks your sites on dozens of sites &#8211; all with a click of the button.</p>
<p>Try it out!  It&#8217;s guaranteed or your money back.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.marketingplaythings.com/recommends/bookmark">Click Here To Try Bookmarking Demon Now!</a> <strong> It&#8217;s amazing.  You will NOT be disappointed.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded>
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